Guillain-Barré syndrome during the Zika virus outbreak in Sucre, Colombia, 2016

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 16, Issue , 2017, Pages 62-63

  Villamil Gomez, Wilmer E ^a,b,c,d   Sánchez Herrera, Álvaro Rosendo ^e   Hernandez, Hugo ^e   Hernández Iriarte, Jayder ^a   Díaz Ricardo, Kelly ^a   Castellanos, Jaime ^f   de Jesús Villamil Macareno, Wilmer ^f   Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a,b,c,d,g  

^a Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo   (Colombia)

^b Colombian Collaborative Network on Zika and Other Arboviruses ^*  (Colombia)

^c Pan American Association of Infectious Diseases   (Ecuador)

^d Asociación Colombiana de Infectología   (Colombia)

^e Intensive Care Unit   (Colombia)

^f UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

^g UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CAMPYLOBACTER ENTERITIS; CHIKUNGUNYA; COLOMBIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DENGUE; EPIDEMIC; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOREFLEXIA; LETTER; MICROCEPHALY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; NONHUMAN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS; WEAKNESS; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; AGED; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIROLOGY; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

AGED; COLOMBIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85016729970     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2017.03.012     Document Type: Letter

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