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Acute hepatitis E complicated by Guillain-Barré syndrome in Portugal, December 2012 – a case report

2013; European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control; Volume: 18; Issue: 34 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2807/1560-7917.es2013.18.34.20563

ISSN

1560-7917

Autores

Lurdes Santos, João R. Mesquita, Nicoly Pereira, Carlos Lima-Alves, Rosário Serrão, Paulo Figueiredo, Joana Reis, J. Simões, María Säo José Nascimento, António Sarmento,

Tópico(s)

Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

Resumo

Autochthonous hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has been increasingly reported in Europe and the United States, mostly arising from genotype 3 and less frequently genotype 4. We report here on a patient with HEV genotype 3a infection complicated by Guillain-Barré syndrome in Portugal in December 2012. We draw attention to the diagnosis of autochthonous HEV infection and to its rare, but important, neurological complications.

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