High incidence of actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans infection in acute coronary syndrome

International Heart Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 663-675

  Sakurai, Kaoru ^a   Wang, Dongqing ^a   Suzuki, Jun Ichi ^a   Umeda, Makoto ^a   Nagasawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Izumi, Yuichi ^a   Ishikawa, Isao ^a,b   Isobe, Mitsuaki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans; Acute coronary syndrome; Periodontopathogen

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ALVEOLAR BONE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; TANNERELLA FORSYTHENSIS; TOOTH FLORA; TOOTH PLAQUE; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ACTINOBACILLUS INFECTIONS; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 37649012866     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.48.663     Document Type: Article

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