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. 2020 Mar 3;70(6):1233-1235.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz625.

Chikungunya, a Risk Factor for Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Sophie Stegmann-Planchard  1   2 , Pierre Gallian  3   4 , Benoit Tressières  2 , Isabelle Leparc-Goffart  5 , Annie Lannuzel  6 , Aissatou Signaté  7 , Cédric Laouénan  8   9 , André Cabié  10 , Bruno Hoen  11
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Chikungunya, a Risk Factor for Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Sophie Stegmann-Planchard et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

In a matched case-control study where 24 cases developed Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) during the 2014 chikungunya outbreak in the French West Indies and 72 controls were blood donors during the same period, chikungunya infection was a risk factor for GBS (odds ratio, 8.3; 95% confidence interval, 2.3-29.7; P = .001).

Keywords: Guillain-Barré syndrome; case-control study; chikungunya infection; chikungunya virus.

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