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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zito A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7471770 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in neurology 20200821
During the recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in Northern Italy, we observed a 57-year-old man developing acute motor-sensory axonal neuropathy, a variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), 12 days after severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Similarly to other bacterial and viral infections, dysregulation of the immune system due to post-infectious mechanisms, such as the molecular mimicry, could lead to an indirect damage of the peripheral nervo ...[more]