Alex Y. Doets, Christine Verboon, Bianca van den Berg, Thomas Harbo et al.
Guillain-Barré syndrome is a heterogeneous disorder regarding the clinical presentation, electrophysiological subtype and outcome. Previous single country reports indicate that Guillain-Barré syndrome may differ among regions, but no systematic comparative studies have been conducted. Comparative st...
Zhahirul Islam, Bart C. Jacobs, Alex van Belkum, Quazi Deen Mohammad et al.
BACKGROUND: Campylobacter jejuni enteritis is the predominant bacterial infection preceding Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), an acute postinfectious immune-mediated polyradiculoneuropathy. The purpose of this study was to define the clinical phenotype of GBS and the relation with preceding C jejuni in...
Prabhat K. Talukdar, Md Mizanur Rahman, Mahdia Rahman, Ashikun Nabi et al.
BACKGROUND: Unsafe water supplies continue to raise public health concerns, especially in urban areas in low resource countries. To understand the extent of public health risk attributed to supply water in Dhaka city, Bangladesh, Escherichia coli isolated from tap water samples collected from differ...
Kaisar A. Talukder, Mohammad Aslam, Zhahirul Islam, Ishrat J. Azmi et al.
From 300 stool samples, 58 Campylobacter strains were isolated by standard microbiological and biochemical methods. Of these, 40 strains were identified as Campylobacter jejuni and 5 as Campylobacter coli. The presence of flaA (100%), cadF (100%), racR (100%), dnaJ (100%), pldA (100%), ciaB (95%), v...
Nowshin Papri, Zhahirul Islam, Sonja E. Leonhard, Quazi Deen Mohammad et al.
The epidemiology, clinical characteristics, management and outcome of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) differ between low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) and high-income countries (HIC). At present, limited data are available on GBS in LMIC and the true incidence of GBS in many LMIC remains u...
Christine Verboon, Alex Y. Doets, Giuliana Galassi, Amy Davidson et al.
OBJECTIVE: To define the current treatment practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). METHODS: The study was based on prospective observational data from the first 1,300 patients included in the International GBS Outcome Study. We described the treatment practice of GBS in general, and for (1) sever...
Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel, Zhahirul Islam, Quazi Deen Mohammad, Bart C. Jacobs et al.
Imran Hasan, KM Saif‐Ur‐Rahman, Shoma Hayat, Nowshin Papri et al.
Several published reports have described a possible association between Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. This systematic review aimed to summarize and meta-analyze the salient features and prognosis of SARS-CoV-2-associated GBS...
Alex Y. Doets, Hester F. Lingsma, Christa Walgaard, Badrul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The clinical course and outcome of the Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) are diverse and vary among regions. The modified Erasmus GBS Outcome Score (mEGOS), developed with data from Dutch patients, is a clinical model that predicts the risk of walking inability in patients wit...
Zhahirul Islam, Michel Gilbert, Quazi Deen Mohammad, Kevin Klaij et al.
BACKGROUND: Campylobacter jejuni is the predominant antecedent infection in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Molecular mimicry and cross-reactive immune responses to C. jejuni lipo-oligosaccharides (LOS) precipitate the development of GBS, although this mechanism has not been established in patients f...
Kaisar A. Talukder, Zhahirul Islam, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Dilip Dutta et al.
The serotypes of 144 strains of Shigella flexneri serotype 1 (serotypes 1a, 1b, and 1c) isolated from patients attending the Dhaka treatment center of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, between 1997 and 2001 were serologically confirmed by using commercially availa...
Christine Verboon, Bianca van den Berg, David R. Cornblath, Esmée Venema et al.
OBJECTIVE: To compare disease course in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) with a poor prognosis who were treated with one or with two intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) courses. METHODS: From the International GBS Outcome Study, we selected patients whose modified Erasmus GBS Outcome Score ...
Kaisar A. Talukder, Bijay K. Khajanchi, Mohammed Aminul Islam, Dilip Dutta et al.
<I>Objectives</I>: The aim of the present study was to determine the clonal relationships of ciprofloxacin-resistant <I>Shigella dysenteriae</I> type 1 strains isolated from south Asia, and <I>S. dysenteriae</I> 1 strains associated with epidemics in 1978, 1984 an...
Astrid P. Heikema, Zhahirul Islam, Deborah Horst-Kreft, Ruth Huizinga et al.
In about one in a thousand cases, a Campylobacter jejuni infection results in the severe polyneuropathy Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). It is established that sialylated lipo-oligosaccharides (LOS) of C. jejuni are a crucial virulence factor in GBS development. Frequent detection of C. jejuni with si...
Helle Al-Hakem, Alex Y. Doets, Amro Stino, Sasha Živković et al.
<h3>Objective:</h3> To investigate cerebrospinal fluid findings in relation to clinical and electrodiagnostic subtypes, severity, and outcome of Guillain-Barré syndrome based on 1500 patients in the International GBS Outcome Study. <h3>Methods:</h3> Albuminocytological dissociation was defined as an...