Increase in cases of guillain-barré syndrome during a chikungunya outbreak, French Polynesia, 2014 to 2015

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 48, 2015, Pages

  Oehler, Erwan ^a   Fournier, E ^b   Leparc Goffart, I ^c   Larre, P ^a   Cubizolle, S ^a   Sookhareea, C ^a   Lastere S ^a   Ghawche, F ^a  

^a French Polynesia Hospital Centre   (French Polynesia)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^c IRBA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHIKUNGUNYA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; AGED; BLOOD; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEURITIS; POLYNESIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIROLOGY;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; ADULT; AGED; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURITIS; POLYNESIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84949463023     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.48.30079     Document Type: Article

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