Large Outbreak of Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Peru, 2019
César V. Munayco, Ronnie G. Gavilan, Gladys Ramirez, Manuel Loayza, Maria L. Miraval, Erin Whitehouse, Radhika Gharpure, Jesus Soares, Hans Vasquez Soplopuco, and James Sejvar
Author affiliations: Centro Nacional de Epidemiología Prevención y Control de Enfermedades, Lima, Peru (C.V. Munayco, G. Ramirez, M. Loayza); Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima (R.G. Gavilan, M.L. Miraval, H.V. Soplopuco); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (E. Whitehouse, R. Gharpure, J. Soares, J. Sejvar)
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Table
General characteristics of persons with Guillain-Barré syndrome, Peru, 2019
Characteristic |
No. cases |
Population |
Cases/100,000 population |
Sex |
|
|
|
M |
401 |
10,416,496 |
3.85 |
F |
282 |
10,882,518 |
2.59 |
Age, y |
|
|
|
0–11 |
48 |
4,321,980 |
1.11 |
12–17 |
45 |
2,223,271 |
2.02 |
18–29 |
118 |
4,498,823 |
2.62 |
30–59 |
333 |
7,870,813 |
4.23 |
>60 |
139 |
2,384,127 |
5.83 |
Area |
|
|
|
Junín |
132 |
1,389,850 |
9.50 |
Piura |
115 |
1,901,896 |
6.05 |
Cajamarca |
53 |
1,543,104 |
3.43 |
La Libertad |
57 |
1,956,389 |
2.91 |
Lambayeque |
31 |
1,300,720 |
2.38 |
Lima |
247 |
10,458,367 |
2.36 |
Callao |
25 |
1,067,815 |
2.34 |
Huancavelica |
10 |
509,117 |
1.96 |
Ancash |
13 |
1,171,756 |
1.11 |
Total |
683 |
21,299,014 |
3.21 |
Peru, total |
709 |
32,526,084 |
2.18 |
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