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SUBMITTER: Zhang M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4510130 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Maojun M Gilbert Michel M Yuki Nobuhiro N Cao Fangfang F Li Jianjun J Liu Hongying H Li Qun Q Meng Fanliang F Zhang Jianzhong J
PloS one 20150721 7
An outbreak of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), subsequent to Campylobacter jejuni enteritis, occurred in China in 2007. Serum anti-ganglioside antibodies were measured in GBS patients and controls. Genome sequencing was used to determine the phylogenetic relationship among three C. jejuni strains from a patient with GBS (ICDCCJ07001), a patient with gastroenteritis (ICDCCJ07002) and a healthy carrier (ICDCCJ07004), which were all associated with the outbreak. The ganglioside-like structures of th ...[more]