Does Campylobacter jejuni infection elicit axonal or demyelinating Guillain - Barré syndrome, or both?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 238-

  Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANGLIOSIDE;

AUTOPSY; CAMPYLOBACTER ENTERITIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FECES CULTURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY;

CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; JAPAN; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 79951776047     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2010.237040     Document Type: Editorial

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