Human rabies with initial manifestations that mimic acute brachial neuritis and Guillain-Barré syndrome

Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-55

  Mader, Edward C ^a   Maury, Joaquin S ^a   Santana Gould, Lenay ^a   Craver, Randall D ^a   El Abassi, Rima ^a   Segura Palacios, Enrique ^a   Sumner, Austin J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute brachial neuritis; Cryptogenic; Guillain Barr ; Rabies; Syndrome; Vampire bat

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ACUTE BRACHIAL NEURITIS; ADULT; AREFLEXIA; ARM PAIN; ARTICLE; BAT; CASE REPORT; CELL COMPONENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DELIRIUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSARTHRIA; DYSAUTONOMIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEVER; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NEGRI BODY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEURITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PLEOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SHOULDER PAIN; THORAX PAIN; VIRUS TYPING;

EID: 84863459451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11795476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/CCRep.S9318     Document Type: Article

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