Superantigens and chronic rhinosinusitis: Detection of staphylococcal exotoxins in nasal polyps

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1580-1585

  Seiberling, Kristin A ^a   Conley, David B ^a   Tripathi, Anju ^a   Grammer, Leslie C ^a   Shuh, Lydia ^a   Haines III, G Kenneth ^a   Schleimer, Robert ^a   Kern, Robert C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic rhinosinusitis; ELISA; Eosinophil; Nasal polyps; Superantigens

Indexed keywords

EXOTOXIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN; SUPERANTIGEN; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS WITH NASAL POLYPOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUCUS; NOSE POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINOSINUSITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENTEROTOXINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILS; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL MUCOSA; NASAL POLYPS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINUSITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPERANTIGENS;

EID: 24944571691     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000168111.11802.9c     Document Type: Article

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