Campylobacter jejuni strains from patients with guillain‐barré syndrome belong mostly to penner serogrpup 19 and contain β‐N‐acetylglucosamine residues

Abstract

Campylobactor jejuni was isolacted from stool cultures from 14(30%) of 46 partients with Guillain‐Barré syndrome and from 6(1.2%) of healthy persons, and the difference was highly significant (PJejuni infection. Ten of 12(83%) isolated from partients with Guillain‐Barré syndrome belonged to Penner serogroup 19, which is a rare serogroup in sporadic patients with C. Jejuni enterties. In the lection typing stude, all serogroup 19 strains from patients with Guillain‐Barré syndrome patients with Guillain‐Barré syndrome were shown to contain terminal b̃‐N‐acetylglucosamine residues on their cell surface, bur serogroup 19 strains from patients with enteritis were not.