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SUBMITTER: Styczynski AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5595339 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20170830 8
In mid-2015, Salvador, Brazil, reported an outbreak of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), coinciding with the introduction and spread of Zika virus (ZIKV). We found that GBS incidence during April-July 2015 among those ≥12 years of age was 5.6 cases/100,000 population/year and increased markedly with increasing age to 14.7 among those ≥60 years of age. We conducted interviews with 41 case-patients and 85 neighborhood controls and found no differences in demographics or exposures prior to GBS-symptom ...[more]