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Toxoplasma gondii-associated Guillain-Barré syndrome in an immunocompetent patient
1Departments of Infectious Diseases, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France. philippe.bossi@ps1.ap-hop-paris.fr
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|November 18, 1998
Abstract:
We report a case of Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with an acute, disseminated toxoplasmosis due to a new and unknown zymodeme (zymodeme 12) in an immunocompetent patient. The patient's condition improved with pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine. Only the standard treatment for toxoplasmosis was effective, whereas intravenous immunoglobulins were ineffective.