Is there an association between Kawasaki disease and Chlamydia pneumoniae?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2103-2105

  Strigl, Sebastian ^a   Kutlin, Andrei ^a   Roblin, Patricia M ^a   Shulman, Stanford ^b   Hammerschlag, Margaret R ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHAPERONIN 60; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME;

EID: 0034085555     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315526     Document Type: Article

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