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Guillain–Barre syndrome following dengue fever and literature review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, November 2015
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Title
Guillain–Barre syndrome following dengue fever and literature review
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BMC Research Notes, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13104-015-1672-0
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Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Priyantha Ralapanawa, Senanayake Abeysinghe Mudiyanselage Kularatne, Widana Arachilage Thilak Ananda Jayalath

Abstract

Dengue is an arboviral infection that classically presents with fever, joint pain, headaches, skin flush and morbilliform rashes. The incidence of neurological symptoms and complications in dengue varies from 1 to 25 % that include encephalopathy, Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), acute motor weakness, seizures, neuritis, hypokalaemic paralysis, pyramidal tract signs, and a few more. Dengue fever as an antecedent infection in GBS is uncommon. A 34-years-old Sri Lankan Sinhalese male presented with fever, headache and myalgia of 3 days and developed leucopenia and thrombocytopenia without evidence of haemoconcentration. The diagnosis of dengue fever was confirmed as he had positive dengue NS1 antigen test on the third day of fever. He made full recovery and was discharged after 4 days of hospital stay. Six days later, he presented with history of acute flaccid weakness of both lower limbs and upper limbs which was of progressive ascending nature. The electromyography had evidence of demyelinating neuropathy and cerebrospinal fluid showed albuminocytological dissociation. Subsequently, IgM for dengue virus was positive. Dengue is endemic in Sri Lanka. Post dengue Guillain-Barre syndrome is a potential neurological complications of this infection.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Unknown 104 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 18%
Student > Bachelor 14 13%
Researcher 11 10%
Student > Postgraduate 10 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 6%
Other 19 18%
Unknown 27 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 36%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 6%
Neuroscience 3 3%
Other 12 11%
Unknown 31 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 July 2023.
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#2,204,218
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Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#279
of 4,432 outputs
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#36,776
of 397,951 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#8
of 162 outputs
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