Background
- Causes either acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, or acute motor axonal neuropathy, or acute motor and sensory axonal neuropathy
Etiology
Epidemiology
- About 1 case per 100,000 people per year in Western countries
Clinical Manifestations
- Ascending paralysis ± sensory involvement
- Usually occurs 1 to 2 weeks after an immune-stimulating even such as illness or vaccination
- Preceding illness usually a gastrointestinal or respiratory infection
- Campylobacter jejuni is the most common causative organism identified
- Rare following influenza vaccination; most notable was the 1976 H1N1 vaccine, with about 1 in 100,000 vaccine recipients developing GBS
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