Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel, Zhahirul Islam, Quazi Deen Mohammad, Bart C. Jacobs et al.
Badrul Islam, Zhahirul Islam, Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel, Israt Jahan et al.
We describe the frequency, clinical features, and electrophysiological and immunological phenotypes of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) patients treated at a single institution in Bangladesh who had preceding chicken pox (primary Varicella-zoster virus [VZV] infection) within 4 weeks of GBS onset. A li...
Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel, Zhahirul Islam, Md. Badrul Islam, Sandra K. Kamga et al.
Abstract Objective Previous studies have associated Guillain–Barré syndrome ( GBS ) with Zika virus ( ZIKV ) outbreaks in South America and Oceania. In Asia, ZIKV is known to circulate widely, but the association with Guillain–Barré syndrome is unclear. We investigated whether endemic ZIKV infection...
Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel, Zhahirul Islam, Bart C. Jacobs, Hubert P. Endtz
Dear Editor, We thank Drs Rodríguez and Anaya for their interest in our publication.1 We agree that the situation in Bangladesh2 seems to differ from the context of the ZIKV outbreaks in the Pacific Islands and Latin America.3 The introduction of ZIKV did not cause an apparent epidemic or increase t...