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Acute Flaccid Paralysis: Intravenous Immunoglobulin is Not the Drug of Choice Always!

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, LOTUS Hospital for Women and Children, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    V. S. V. Prasad, Lokesh Saini, Parag Shankar Rao Dekate & Sampath Penchala

  2. Pediatric Neurology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India

    Indar Kumar Sharawat & Lokesh Saini

  3. Department of Radio-diagnosis and Imaging, Citi Neuro Centre, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Dandu Ravi Varma

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Prasad, V.S.V., Sharawat, I.K., Saini, L. et al. Acute Flaccid Paralysis: Intravenous Immunoglobulin is Not the Drug of Choice Always!. Indian J Pediatr 85, 1139–1140 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-018-2746-5

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