Tick Paralysis

Authors

  • J Gordon Millichap Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-16-10-3

Keywords:

Tick Paralysis, Acute Muscle Weakness, Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Abstract

Six children aged 3.3 to 5.5 years (5 girls and 1 boy), of 26 admitted with acute muscle weakness to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, over a 5 year period (1992-97), were diagnosed with tick paralysis.

Published

2002-10-01

Issue

Section

Neuromuscular Disorders