A rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: Guillain-Barre’ syndrome

Guillain-Barre’ syndrome is a rare complication of typhoid fever, and only a few such cases have been reported in the pediatric age group. We report a young boy with blood culture proven typhoid fever that developed this very rare neurological complication quite early in the course of the disease. F...

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Autores principales: Kapoor, Kapil, Jain, Sumidha, Jajoo, Mamta, Talukdar, Bibek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25250072
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.139323
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Sumario:Guillain-Barre’ syndrome is a rare complication of typhoid fever, and only a few such cases have been reported in the pediatric age group. We report a young boy with blood culture proven typhoid fever that developed this very rare neurological complication quite early in the course of the disease. Following treatment with intravenous antibiotics and intravenous immunoglobulin, he improved.

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