Brucella Induced Guillain–Barré Syndrome

Fatehi Elnour Elzein Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Neurobrucellosis is relatively uncommon. In a prospective study of 530 patients with brucellosis, neurologic involvement was reported in only 1.7% of the patients. Unlike Campylobacter jejuni, the commonest infection implicated in Guillain–Barré syndrome, there are very few reports in the literature of Guillain–Barré syndrome in association with brucellosis. Out of 1,028 cases of brucellosis, polyneuritis was reported in only 2 out of 58 patients with neurological involvement.

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* Address correspondence to Fatehi Elnour Elzein, PO Box 7897, Riyadh 11159, Saudi Arabia. E-mail: fatehielzein@yahoo.com

Authors' addresses: Fatehi Elzein and Mohammed Mursi, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Infectious Diseases, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, E-mails: fatehielzein@yahoo.com and dr.m.mursi84@hotmail.com.

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