An Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Therapeutic Study of Childhood Guillain-Barré Syndrome in Kuwait: Is It Related to the Oral Polio Vaccine?

We studied Guillain-Barré syndrome, affecting children 12 years old or less, throughout Kuwait, in the period between January 1, 1992, and March 31, 1997. Nineteen children had the diagnostic criteria of Guillain-Barré syndrome, with an overall annual incidence rate of 0.95/100,000 population at ris...

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