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We performed serologic testing for Campylobacter jejuni in 17 consecutive patients with acute Guillain-Barre syndrome from the Boston,Mass area to compare the frequency of this preceding infection with the high rates reported from other areas of the world.The rate of seropositivity,18%,was considerable,but it was lower than that reported in Australia.Moreover,all of our patients with definite serologic evidence of infection had severe enteritis before Guillain-Barre syndrome,usually with the organism cultured from stool samples.Campylobacter enteritis is an important antecedent illness for Guillain-Barre syndrome but did not precipitate the disease without enteritis. |
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