The human immune response to streptococcal extracellular antigens: Clinical, diagnostic, and potential pathogenetic implications

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 481-490

  Johnson, Dwight R ^a   Kurlan, Roger ^b   Leckman, James ^c   Kaplan, Edward L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISTREPTOLYSIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; STREPTODORNASE; STREPTODORNASE B; STREPTODORNASE B ANTIBODY; STREPTOLYSIN O; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THROAT CULTURE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHARYNX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOLYSINS;

EID: 75749122248     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650167     Document Type: Article

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