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Comparative genomic analysis of Campylobacter jejuni associated with Guillain-Barré and Miller Fisher syndromes: neuropathogenic and enteritis-associated isolates can share high levels of genomic similarity

Eduardo N Taboada1 email, Alex van Belkum2 email, Nobuhiro Yuki3 email, Rey R Acedillo1 email, Peggy CR Godschalk2 email, Michiaki Koga3 email, Hubert P Endtz2 email, Michel Gilbert1 email and John HE Nash1 email

Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada

Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Department of Neurology and Research Institute of Neuroimmunological Diseases, Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine, Shimotsuga, Tochigi 321-0293, Japan

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BMC Genomics 2007, 8:359doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-359

Published: 5 October 2007

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Additional file 1:

Statistical assessment of genes displaying differential conservation rates among enteritic and neuropathogenic isolates. The table represents the statistical assessment of the conservation rates among the genes that have been observed to be differentially conserved enteritic versus neuropathogenic isolates.

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