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
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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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author Kapoor, Kapil
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description 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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spelling pubmed-41668392014-09-23 A rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: Guillain-Barre’ syndrome Kapoor, Kapil Jain, Sumidha Jajoo, Mamta Talukdar, Bibek J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4166839/ /pubmed/25250072 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.139323 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kapoor, Kapil
Jain, Sumidha
Jajoo, Mamta
Talukdar, Bibek
A rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: Guillain-Barre’ syndrome
title A rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: Guillain-Barre’ syndrome
title_full A rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: Guillain-Barre’ syndrome
title_fullStr A rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: Guillain-Barre’ syndrome
title_full_unstemmed A rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: Guillain-Barre’ syndrome
title_short A rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: Guillain-Barre’ syndrome
title_sort rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: guillain-barre’ syndrome
topic Case Report
url 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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