Tick Paralysis

Table 24.1 Epidemiological, Clinical, and Neurophysiological Comparison of North American and Australian Tick Paralysis

Table 24.1 (continued) Epidemiological, Clinical, and Neurophysiological Comparison of North American and Australian Tick Paralysis

conducting careful body searches for ticks at preferred attachment sites. In their series of six pediatric cases of TP in Mississippi, Venkataraman and coinvestigators reported that half of their patients (n = 3) were misdiagnosed as GBS and treated with intravenous gamma globulin G (IVIG) before attached ticks were discovered, often by nurses or parents grooming the patient [2].