<i>Campylobacter jejuni</i> strains from patients with guillain‐barré syndrome belong mostly to penner serogrpup 19 and contain β‐<i>N</i>‐acetylglucosamine residues

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Campylobacter jejuni was isolated from stool cultures from 14 (30%) of 46 patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome and from 6 (1.2%) of 503 healthy persons, and the difference was highly significant (p < 0.0001). In addition, serological evidence of recent C. jejuni infection was found in 5 of 29 patients with negative stool cultures. Therefore, 41% of patients were associated with C. jejuni infection. Ten of 12...

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