Could myocarditis, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and Guillain-Barré syndrome be caused by one or more infectious agents carried by rodents?

• Main Authors: Niklasson, B., Hörnfeldt, B., Lundman, B.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Centers for Disease Control 1998
• Subjects: Research Article; Barré; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640149; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9621189

The numbers of small rodents in northern Sweden fluctuate heavily, peaking every 3 or 4 years. We found that the incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, as well as the number of deaths caused by myocarditis, followed the fluctuations in numbers of bank voles, al...