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Large Outbreak of Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Peru, 2019

2020; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 26; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3201/eid2611.200127

1080-6059

César V. Munayco, Ronnie G. Gavilán, Gladys Ramírez, Manuel Loayza, Maria L. Miraval, Erin Whitehouse, Radhika Gharpure, Jesus Soares, Hans Vasquez Soplopuco, James J. Sejvar,

Hereditary Neurological Disorders

Abstract Outbreaks of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) are uncommon. In May 2019, national surveillance in Peru detected an increase in GBS cases in excess of the expected incidence of 1.2 cases/100,000 population. Several clinical and epidemiologic findings call into question the suggested association between this GBS outbreak and Campylobacter.