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A Case of Guillain-Barre Syndrome Following Salmonella Typhi Infection

Ji-Hyun Lee, Sang-Wook Ha, Ji-Su Moon, Min-Jeong Kim, Bong-Goo Yoo, Kwang-Soo Kim
Journal of the Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2005;7(1):26-27.
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The Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an acute polyradiculoneuropathy marked by flaccid areflexic paralysis.Although the pathogenesis of GBS remains incompletely defined, considered as an autoimmune disease most frequentlytriggered by an previous infection. Antecedent infections with Campylobacter jejuni, cytomegalovirus, Ebstein-Barrvirus, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, human immunodeficiency virus, enterovirus, rotavirus arecommon. But, it is rare that GBS following typhoid fever. We present a case of typical GBS after antecedentSalmonella typhi infection.

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