Guillain-Barré Syndrome Outbreak in Peru 2019 Associated With Campylobacter jejuni Infection

Ana P Ramos1, Sonja E Leonhard2, Susan K Halstead2

  • 1From the Departamento de Medicina (A.P.R., M.A.C., C.C.C., J.A.D., M.A.T., J.T.A., H.F.U.), Servicio de Neurología y Neuropsiquiatría, Hospital Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú; Department of Neurology (S.E.L.) and Department of Neurology and Department of Immunology (B.C.J.), Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands; Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation (S.K.H., D.G., H.J.W.), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas Tropicales y Dermatológicas (A.L.), Hospital Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú; U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit-6 (M.G., M.R., J.D.R., R.M.), Lima, Peru; Center for Computational Biology (D.P., R.M.S., S.L.S.), Department of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and Department of Pathology (P.J.S.), Department of Neurology (D.R.C.), and Department of Neurology and Department of Pathology (C.A.P.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. ana.ramos.t@upch.pe.

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