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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 1998, p. 3724-3725, Vol. 36, No. 12
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Toxoplasma gondii-Associated Guillain-Barré Syndrome in an Immunocompetent Patient

Philippe Bossi,1,* Eric Caumes,1 Luc Paris,2 Marie-Laure Dardé,3 and François Bricaire1

Departments of Infectious Diseases1 and Parasitology,2 Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, and Department of Parasitology, Dupuytren Hospital, Limoges,3 France

Received 4 August 1998/Returned for modification 27 August 1998/Accepted 15 September 1998

We report a case of Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with an acute, disseminated toxoplasmosis due to a new and unknown zymodeme (zymodeme 12) in an immunocompetent patient. The patient's condition improved with pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine. Only the standard treatment for toxoplasmosis was effective, whereas intravenous immunoglobulins were ineffective.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47-83 Bd. de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France. Phone: 33 1 42 16 01 11. Fax: 33 1 44 24 01 26. E-mail: philippe.bossi{at}psl.ap-hop-paris.fr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 1998, p. 3724-3725, Vol. 36, No. 12
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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