A rare neurological complication of typhoid fever: Guillain-Barre' syndrome.

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Guillain-Barre ' syndrome is a rare complication of typhoid fever , and only a few such cases have been reported in the pediatric age group . We report a young boy with blood culture proven typhoid fever that developed this very rare neurological complication quite early in the course of the disease . Following treatment with intravenous antibiotics and intravenous immunoglobulin , he improved .