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. 2020 Dec 14:awaa444. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa444
COVID-19 vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome: let’s not leap to associations
Michael P Lunn
1,2,✉, David R Cornblath
3, Bart C Jacobs
4,5, Luis Querol
6, Peter A van Doorn
4, Richard A Hughes
1, Hugh J Willison
7
Michael P Lunn
1
Centre for Neuromuscular Disease, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
2Department of Neuromuscular Disease, Institute of Neurology, University College London, WC1N 3BG, UK
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David R Cornblath
3Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Bart C Jacobs
4Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
5Department of Immunology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Luis Querol
6Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu I Santa Pau, 8025, Barcelona, Spain
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Peter A van Doorn
4Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Richard A Hughes
1
Centre for Neuromuscular Disease, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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Hugh J Willison
7College of Medicine, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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1
Centre for Neuromuscular Disease, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
2Department of Neuromuscular Disease, Institute of Neurology, University College London, WC1N 3BG, UK
3Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
4Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
5Department of Immunology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
6Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu I Santa Pau, 8025, Barcelona, Spain
7College of Medicine, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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Correspondence to: Michael P. Lunn, E-mail: michaellunn@nhs.net
Received 2020 Nov 23; Revised 2020 Nov 30; Accepted 2020 Dec 4.
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