Guillain-Barré Syndrome Following a Malignant Varicella in Immunocompetent Adult SciDoc Publishers | Open Access | Science Journals | Media Partners

Varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection may trigger Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), but this is rare and almost always in the context of reactivation disease from latent VZV, ‘shingles’. We report here a case of severe GBS following primary VZV infection in an immunocompetent adult