title: Acute hepatitis E complicated by Guillain-Barre syndrome in Portugal, December 2012--a case report.
abstract: Autochthonous hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has been increasingly reported in Europe and the United States, mostly arising from genotype 3 and less frequently genotype 4. We report here on a patient with HEV genotype 3a infection complicated by Guillain-Barré syndrome in Portugal in December 2012. We draw attention to the diagnosis of autochthonous HEV infection and to its rare, but important, neurological complications.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Disease Service, Intensive Care Unit; Nephrology Research and Development Unit (FCT-725) and Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Sao Joao Hospital Centre, Alameda Professor Hernani Monteiro, Porto, Portugal. maria.lurdes.uci@gmail.com
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Mesquita
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rocha Pereira
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lima-Alves
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Serrão
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Figueiredo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reis
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Simões
authors.forename: Ms
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nascimento
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarmento
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D020275:Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D016751:Hepatitis E / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D016752:Hepatitis E virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011174:Portugal; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000097:blood; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral