Acute hepatitis E complicated by Guillain-Barré syndrome in Portugal, December 2012 – a case report

L Santos; J R Mesquita; N Rocha Pereira; C Lima-Alves; R Serrão; P Figueiredo; J Reis; J Simões; M S Nascimento; A Sarmento

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.34.20563

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Acute hepatitis E complicated by Guillain-Barré syndrome in Portugal, December 2012 – a case report
L Santos¹ , J R Mesquita^2,3 , N Rocha Pereira¹ , C Lima-Alves¹ , R Serrão¹ , P Figueiredo¹ , J Reis⁴ , J Simões⁵ , M S Nascimento² , A Sarmento¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Infectious Disease Service, Intensive Care Unit; Nephrology Research and Development Unit (FCT-725) and Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, São João Hospital Centre, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, Porto, Portugal ² Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Porto, Rua Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, Porto, Portugal ³ Agrarian Superior School, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Quinta da Alagoa-Estrada de Nelas, Ranhados, Viseu, Portugal ⁴ Neurology Service, University of Porto, São João Hospital Centre, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, Porto, Portugal ⁵ Clinical Pathology Service, São João Hospital Centre, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, Porto, Portugal

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Citation style for this article: Santos L, Mesquita J R, Rocha Pereira N, Lima-Alves C, Serrão R, Figueiredo P, Reis J, Simões J, Nascimento M S, Sarmento A. Acute hepatitis E complicated by Guillain-Barré syndrome in Portugal, December 2012 – a case report. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(34):pii=20563. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.34.20563 Received: 12 Aug 2013

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. .