Guillain-Barré syndrome, from the search for Zika to the discovery of asymptomatic campylobacteriosis as a risk factor for neurological syndromes in Veracruz, Mexico.

Abstract

I Mexico, as well as in the rest of America, moments of uncertainty were also experienced when the Chikungunya and Zika viruses arrived from Polynesia in 2014 to 2015, mainly Zika due to its great neurotropic potential, conditioning microcephaly, and Guillain‐Barré syndrome. Alerting us from the initial experiences of Oceania and South America and taking time to prepare protocol studies when the viruses arrived in Mexican lands, a situation that took place in 2015.[1]