What are the types of poliomyelitis?

Answer 1

There are 3 types of poliomyelitis (polio) infection:

1. Sub-clinical: does not affect the central nervous system and patients may not experience any symptoms

2. Non-paralytic: affects the central nervous system, produces mild symptoms, and does not result in paralysis

3. Paralytic: rarest and most serious and produces full or partial paralysis in the patient.

There are 3 types of paralytic polio:

1. spinal polio (affects the spine)

2. bulbar polio (affects the brainstem)

3. bulbospinal polio (affects the spine and brainstem)