• DOI:10.1056/NEJMe1611840
Corpus ID: 42198417

Zika Getting on Your Nerves? The Association with the Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

@article{Frontera2016ZikaGO,
  title={Zika Getting on Your Nerves? The Association with the Guillain-Barr{\'e} Syndrome.},
  author={J A Frontera and Ivan Rocha Ferreira da Silva},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2016},
  volume={375 16},
  pages={
          1581-1582
        }
}

J A Frontera, Ivan Rocha Ferreira da Silva

Published 2016

Medicine

The New England journal of medicine

Parra and colleagues1 report in the Journal the results of a prospective study of 68 Colombian patients who had a syndrome consistent with the Guillain–Barre syndrome, 66 of whom had previously had symptoms of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection. Major strengths of this study include the documentation of a temporal relationship between the Guillain–Barre syndrome and ZIKV infection (marked by a substantial increase in the incidence of the Guillain–Barre syndrome after the introduction of ZIKV, from 20… CONTINUE READING

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