Infectious
Acute forms of neuropathies. ABONNE
Installation in a few hours: Mainly vasculitis (polyarteritis nodosa) The picture is more of a multineuritis with multiple radicular or truncal involvement. Installation in a few days: – Guillain-Barrè syndrome and its variants. – Neuropathy
Lyme disease
Causal agent: Due to a spirochete bacteria of the genus Borrelia. Three species of Borrelia are known to cause Lyme disease: Borrelia Burgdorferi, Borrelia Garinii, Borrelia Afzelii. Epidemiology : Lyme disease is transmitted by tick
Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis
Described in 1909 by Carlos Chagas. Endemic tropical parasitic anthropozoonosis in 21 countries in Central and South America. 18 million people are estimated to be infected in Latin America. Between 2 to 3 million individuals
Leptospiroses
Causal agent: Leptospiroses are zoonoses (diseases transmitted by animals) caused by bacteria of the leptospira genus. There are more than 130 serotypes grouped into 23 serogroups The most common in France is Leptospira ictero-haemorragiae. Epidemiology
Brucellosis
Brucellosis or Malta fever, melitococcal disease. Causal agent: Three germs from the same family: Brucella melitensis, Brucella abortus bovis, Brucella abortus suis. Asporulate aerobic gram-negative coccobacillus. In France the number of human cases is decreasing,
Neuropathies of infectious origin
Neuropathies of infectious origin Three types of infectious agent can be directly or indirectly responsible for neuropathy: viruses, bacteria and parasites. Neuropathies of viral origin: Herpes virus infection Varicella zoster virus infection Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection