Increased incidence of Campylobacter jejuni-associated Guillain- Barré syndromes in the Greater Paris area

Abstract

The role of Campylobacter jejuni as the triggering agent of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) has not been reassessed since the end of the 1990s in France. We report that the number of C. jejuni-related GBS cases increased continuously between 1996 and 2007 in the Paris region (mean annual increment: 7%, P = 0·007). © 2014 Cambridge University Press.