Postmortem examination results of a patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome and confirmed Zika virus infection revealed demyelination of the sciatic and cranial IV nerves, providing evidence of the acute demyelinating inflammatory polyneuropathy Guillain-Barré syndrome variant. Lack of evidence of Zika virus in nervous tissue suggests that pathophysiology was antibody mediated without neurotropism.
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Dirlikov, E., Torres, J. V., Martines, R. B., Reagan-Steiner, S., Pérez, G. V., Rivera, A., … Sharp, T. M. (2018). Postmortem findings in patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome and zika virus infection. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 24(1), 114–117. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2401.171331
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