Abstract:The patient is a previously healthy Eastern-African man in his late 20s, with unknown vaccination status who presented to a US Army Combat Hospital in Iraq with acute upper and lower extremity weakness progressing to respiratory distress requiring intubation over the course of 12 h. His only antecedent symptoms were weakness and nausea. Laboratories including complete blood count, C reactive protein, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, venous blood gas, rapid HIV and chemistry were normal. Non-contrast head CT was n… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.