The role of bacterial lipopolysaccharide-bound neutrophils in the pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 508-512

  Takeshita, Seiichiro ^a   Nakatani, Keigo ^b   Kawase, Hiroko ^b   Seki, Shuhji ^b   Yamamoto, Mikio ^b   Sekine, Isao ^b   Yoshioka, Shigetake ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS;

ANTIGENS, CD14; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NEUTROPHILS; PEROXIDASE;

EID: 0033019390     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314600     Document Type: Article

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