The throat flora and its mitogenic activity in patients with Kawasaki disease

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 899-903

  Horita, Norihisa ^a   Yokota, Shin Ichi ^a   Fuse, Shigeto ^a   Takamuro, Moioki ^a   Tomita, Hideshi ^a   Sato, Kiyoshi ^a   Fujii, Nobuhiro ^a   Tsutsumi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kawasaki disease; Mitogenic activity; Throat flora

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; SUPERANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MITOGENESIS; MOUTH FLORA; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 10044287106     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2004.tb03609.x     Document Type: Article

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