Clinical toxicology : the official journal of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology and European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists
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Clin Toxicol (Phila) · Nov 2015
Review Meta Analysis Comparative StudyA Comparative Meta-Analysis of Tick Paralysis in the United States and Australia.
Tick paralysis is a neurotoxic envenoming that mimics polio and primarily afflicts children, especially in hyperendemic regions of the Western United States of America (US) and Eastern Australia. ⋯ Tick paralysis should be added to and quickly excluded from the differential diagnoses of acute ataxia with ascending flaccid paralysis, especially in children living in tick paralysis-endemic regions worldwide.