Microbes as trigger for primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 803-804

  Ljungh, Å ^a   Nilsson, H O ^a   Stenram, U ^a   Willen R ^b   Wadstrom T ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; DNA 16S; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL CULTURE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA DETERMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; KUPFFER CELL; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER METASTASIS; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RETROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS PARTICLE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BLOOD; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CROSS REACTION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS REACTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33744752804     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2005.06.001     Document Type: Letter

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