QBANK Three days after recovering from the "flu", a 35 year-old woman experiences numbness and tingling of the lower limbs. Over the following day, the numb

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Three days after recovering from the "flu", a 35 year-old woman experiences numbness and tingling of the lower limbs. Over the following day, the numbness becomes accompanied by weakness and spreads to the upper extremities. Which of the following test results will confirm the presumptive diagnosis?

A. Positive FTA-ABS test
B. Positive Edrophonium challenge
C. LP evidencing decreased glucose
D. LP evidencing albumino-cytologic dissociation
E. Positive culture for C. jejuni