Objective: To determine if patients with the Guillain-Barre syndrome are likely to have had
Campylobacter jejuni infection before onset of neurologic symptoms. Design: A case–control …

Background Although infection with Campylobacter jejuni is recognized as a common
antecedent of the Guillain–Barré syndrome, the clinical and epidemiologic features of this …

• We performed serologic testing forCampylobacter jejuniin 17 consecutive patients with
acute Guillain-Barré syndrome from the Boston, Mass area to compare the frequency of this …

Immunoblot (Western blot) examination of the sera of 45 patients with the Guillain‐Barré
syndrome demonstrated that between three and five immunoreactive bands that were …

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a neurologic disease that produces ascending paralysis,
affects people all over the world. Acute infectious illnesses precede 50%–75% of the GBS …

The group of patients with Guillain‐Barré syndrome (GBS) is very heterogenous with regard
to antecedent infections, immunological parameters, clinical manifestations, and response to …

Using Penner's method and Lior's scheme, we serotyped 31 isolates from patients with
Guillain‐Barré syndrome, 7 isolates from those with Fisher's syndrome, and isolates from …

Evidence of recent or ongoing Campylobacter jejuni infection has been found in
approximately one out of every four cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). It is …

• Four of 106 consecutive patients with acute Guillain-Barré syndrome had preceding
bacterial enteritis caused byCampylobacter jejuni. One had a severe illness with axonal …

An acute infectious illness frequently precedes the Guillain‐Barré syndrome. Recently,
Campylobacter jejuni was claimed to be a predominant precipitating agent that may also …