We checked twenty-nine clinical histories of children with Guillain-Barré-Strohl Syndrome from eleven months to fourteen years of age, interned in the Bethlehem Support Hospital of Trujillo, from January 1980 to December 1991, were reviewed in order to determine the characteristics clinical and cerebrospinal fluid. The results were: 1. The average age of the series of 7.9 years, and the age group of 5 to 9 years was the most affected. 2. There was a predominance of males with an index of 1.4 to 1. 3. There were non-neurological concomitant symptoms in 75.9%, and the most frequent were sensation of thermal rise, cough, headache and diarrhea. 4. Pathological history was found in 34.4%, the most frequent being acute respiratory infection. 5. Neurological symptoms appeared on average 2.7 days after the onset of the disease. 6. The installation time of the complete neurological clinical pict...

La rabia es una enfermedad viral prevenible que afecta el sistema nervioso de los seres humanos y otros mamíferos, cada año miles de personas y millones de animales mueren en el mundo a causa de esta enfermedad el cual es producido por un miembro del genero Lyssavirus. La rabia es mas severo en países en vías de desarrollo, en América Latina se ha determinado dos ciclos epidemiológicos de transmisión, el ciclo urbano donde el perro es el principal reservorio y transmisor y el ciclo silvestre donde muchos animales están involucrados como transmisores. En el Perú la rabia silvestre es un serio problema de salud pública, particularmente la rabia asociado con el vampiro común “Desmodus rotundus”.