Elevated IgG against the C region of streptococcal M protein and its immunodeterminants in patients with poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 293-299

  Mori, K ^a   Ito, Y ^a   Kamikawaji, N ^a   Sasazuki, T ^a  

^a KOCHI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISTREPTOLYSIN; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; M PROTEIN; STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN; STREPTOKINASE; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STREPTOCOCCAL M PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCHOOL CHILD; ACUTE DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHARYNGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; ANTISTREPTOLYSIN; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; PEPTIDES; PHARYNGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOKINASE;

EID: 0030611930     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3476(97)70169-0     Document Type: Article

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