Chikungunya, a Risk Factor for Guillain-Barré Syndrome. (9th July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stegmann-Planchard, Sophie; Gallian, Pierre; Tressières, Benoit; Leparc-Goffart, Isabelle; Lannuzel, Annie; Signaté, Aissatou; Laouénan, Cédric; Cabié, André; Hoen, Bruno
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 70:Number 6(2020)
• Page Start: 1233
• Page End: 1235
• Publication Date: 2019-07-09
• Subjects: chikungunya virus -- chikungunya infection -- Guillain-Barré syndrome -- case-control study; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz625
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

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).