Tick paralysis: clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on tick paralysis: clinical features: Commonest causative species Dermacentor andersoni Dermacentor variabilis Ixodes holocylus Pathogenesis Prodromal features Onset features Neurological features Outcome

Commonest causative species

  • Dermacentor andersoni
  • Dermacentor variabilis
  • Ixodes holocylus

Pathogenesis

Prodromal features

Onset features

Neurological features

Outcome

References

  1. Chagnon SL, Naik M, Abdel-Hamid H. Child neurology: tick paralysis: A diagnosis not to miss. Neurology 2014; 82:e91-e93.
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  4. Vedanarayanan VV, Evans OB, Subramony SH. Tick paralysis in children: Electrophysiology and possibility of misdiagnosis. Neurology 2002; 59:1088-1090.

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