Oligosymptomatic dengue infection: A potential cause of Guillain Barré syndrome

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 66, Issue 2 A, 2008, Pages 234-237

  Soares, Cristiane Nascimento ^a,c,e   Cabral Castro, Mauro ^c   Oliveira, Celina ^b   Faria, Luis Claudio ^c   Peralta, José Mauro ^c   De Freitas, Marcos Raimundo Gomes ^a   Puccioni Sohler, Marzia ^b,c,d  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO ANTÔNIO PEDRO   (Brazil)

^b CSF Neurolife Laboratory   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e HUGG/UNIRIO ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

CSF; Dengue; Guillain Barr syndrome; Polyradiculoneuritis; Radiculoneuropathy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMPTOM;

EID: 45849136672     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2008000200018     Document Type: Article

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