Helicobacter pylori infection may trigger Guillain-Barré syndrome, Fisher syndrome and Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 305, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 167-168

  Kountouras, Jannis ^a   Deretzi, Georgia ^a   Zavos, Christos ^a   Tsiptsios, Dimitrios ^a   Gavalas, Emmanuel ^a   Vardaka, Elizabeth ^a   Polyzos, Stergios A ^a   Klonizakis, Philippos ^a   Kyriakou, Panagiota ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; LYMPHOTOXIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

AUTOIMMUNITY; BICKERSTAFF BRAINSTEM ENCEPHALITIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALITIS; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LETTER; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLOSIS;

BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; ENCEPHALITIS; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; MILLER FISHER SYNDROME;

EID: 79955679943     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2011.03.015     Document Type: Letter

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