Author Response: An International Perspective on Preceding Infections in Guillain-Barré Syndrome: The IGOS-1000 Cohort.

We thank the readers for their comments on our article.(1) The results of the International Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) Outcome Study (IGOS) do not reflect GBS statistics worldwide. We focused on 5 pathogens consistently associated with GBS in case-control studies and found similar distributions across participating countries including Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Japan.(1) In 59% of patients, no evidence of infection was found, which suggests other triggers.