A rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: Guillain-Barre′ syndrome | Zendy

Kapil Kapoor | Zendy; Sumidha Jain | Zendy; Mamta Jajoo | Zendy; Bibek Talukdar | Zendy

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A rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: Guillain-Barre′ syndrome

Author(s) -

Kapil Kapoor,

Sumidha Jain,

Mamta Jajoo,

Bibek Talukdar

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of pediatric neurosciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247

H-Index - 18

eISSN - 1998-3948

pISSN - 1817-1745

DOI - 10.4103/1817-1745.139323

Subject(s) - medicine , typhoid fever , guillain barre syndrome , complication , pediatrics , enteric fever , high fever , antibiotics , disease , surgery , virology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Guillain-Barre' syndrome is a rare complication of typhoid fever, and only a few such cases have been reported in the pediatric age group. We report a young boy with blood culture proven typhoid fever that developed this very rare neurological complication quite early in the course of the disease. Following treatment with intravenous antibiotics and intravenous immunoglobulin, he improved.

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