Abstract
Objective: To correlate dengue infection and the development of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS). Bibliographic review: The results demonstrate that there is an association between dengue infection and the development of GBS, especially in the summer, period of predominance of the virus. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue is a febrile pathology associated with two or more of the symptoms: headache, retroorbital pain, myalgia/arthralgia, exanthema and positive loop petechiae, of acute onset lasting 2-7 days. GBS, on the other hand, is an acute demyelinating inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy of an autoimmune nature, that is, the immune system recognizes and attacks the nervous system, leading to damage to the myelin sheath. Final considerations: Therefore, this study revealed an association between GBS and this arbovirus, with fever being the main symptom for identifying arbovirus infection, followed by myalgia, arthralgia and rash, as well as progressive and ascending paresis and/or plegias. determining factors for the identification of GBS. Thus, prevention against vectors is essential to reduce the rate of infections and, consequently, reduce cases of possible development of GBS, improving the prognosis of patients.