SEROLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF AN ASSOCIATION OF A NOVEL CHLAMYDIA, TWAR, WITH CHRONIC CORONARY HEART DISEASE AND ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

The Lancet

Volumn 332, Issue 8618, 1988, Pages 983-986

  Saikku, P ^a,b,c   Mattila, K ^a,b,c   Nieminen, M S ^a,b,c   Huttunen, J K ^a,b,c   Leinonen, M ^a,b,c   Ekman, M R ^a,b,c   Mäkelä, P H ^a,b,c   Valtonen, V ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0023770125     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(88)90741-6     Document Type: Article

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