Reactivity of rheumatic fever and scarlet fever patients' sera with group a streptococcal M protein, cardiac myosin, and cardiac tropomyosin: A retrospective study

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 7132-7136

  Jones, Kevin F ^a   Whitehead, Stephen S ^b,d   Cunningham, Madeleine W ^c   Fischetti, Vincent A ^b  

^a SIGA Technologies Incorporated   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL M PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MYOSIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; TROPOMYOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SCARLET FEVER; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 0034443888     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.12.7132-7136.2000     Document Type: Article

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