Genre
- Journal Article
Serum samples from 43 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), 32 non-GBS neurology patients, and 35 healthy persons from a medical institute in Kerala, India, were tested for antibody levels against a Campylobacter jejuni strain Penner serotype 0:19 by agglutination and ELISA. Twenty-six percent of samples from GBS cases showed high antibody levels in all assays. Of 8 stool samples of new GBS cases examined by culture, 38% were positive for C. jejuni/C. col1. The results suggest that at least a quarter of GBS cases studied were associated with Campylobacter infection.
Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada.
ITALY
LR: 20061115; PUBM: Print; JID: 9516291; 0 (Antibodies, Bacterial); 0 (Autoantibodies); 37758-47-7 (G(M1) Ganglioside); ppublish
Source type: Electronic(1)
Language
- English
Subjects
- Middle Aged
- Adolescent
- Humans
- Campylobacter jejuni/immunology/isolation & purification
- Child
- Polyradiculoneuropathy/immunology/microbiology
- Antibodies, Bacterial/blood
- G(M1) Ganglioside/immunology
- Male
- Autoantibodies/blood
- Escherichia coli Infections/microbiology
- Escherichia coli/isolation & purification
- Feces/microbiology
- Adult
- Campylobacter Infections/microbiology
- Female