Is there a Relation between Chlamydia Infection and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis?

Clinical and Developmental Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 2-4, 2003, Pages 227-233

  Leung, Patrick S C ^a   Park, Ogyi ^a   Matsumura, Shuji ^a   Ansari, Affab A ^b   Coppel, Ross L ^c   Gershwin, M Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; Cross reactivity; Infection; Primary biliary cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RNA 16S;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFECTION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SEROLOGY; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 0346502827     PISSN: 17402522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10446670310001642429     Document Type: Article

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