Polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia and high smooth-muscle autoantibody titers with specificity against filamentous actin: consider visceral leishmaniasis, not just autoimmune hepatitis

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Makaritsis, Konstantinos P ^a   Gatselis, Nikolaos K ^a   Ioannou, Maria ^a   Petinaki, Efthimia ^a   Dalekos, George N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amphotericin; Autoimmune hepatitis; F actin autoantibodies; Smooth muscle autoantibodies; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; F ACTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PENTAMIDINE; SMOOTH MUSCLE ANTIBODY;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACTIN FILAMENT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CYTOPENIA; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA PRIMERS; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 67349084343     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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