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Antecedent infections and anti-ganglioside antibodies in Guillain-Barré syndrome : their role in pathogenesis and heterogeneity
- Publication date
- 22 October 1997
- Publisher
- The Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is the most common form of acute neuromuscular
paralysis in developed countries, but the pathogenesis is still largely unknown.
The major clinical features of the syndrome were first united by J-B.O. Landry in 1859
(1). The syndrome was named after G. Guillain and J.A. Barre, two French army
neurologists, who in 1916 described, together