| Literature DB >> 3309194 |
E A Sanders1, A C Peters, J W Gratana, R A Hughes.
Abstract
Two patients developed Guillain-Barré syndrome after varicella-zoster infection; a 4-year-old boy after chickenpox and a 74-year-old man after shingles. Both had decreased CD8-positive lymphocytes in the blood during the course of their illness. These cases and others reported in the literature suggest that varicella-zoster infection is a significant but rare trigger factor of Guillain-Barré syndrome. An alteration in the balance of helper and suppressor lymphocytes may be an important pathogenetic mechanism.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID： 3309194 DOI： 10.1007/BF00314094
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurol ISSN： 0340-5354 Impact factor: 4.849