Overall picture of an emerging neonatal infectious disease induced by a superantigenic exotoxin mainly produced by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 737-745

  Takahashi, Naoto ^a   Imanishi, Ken'ichi ^b   Uchiyama, Takehiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinical immunology; Infection immunity; Pathogenesis; Toxin

Indexed keywords

CD45RO ANTIGEN; EXOTOXIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; INTERLEUKIN 10; PROTEIN VBETA2; SUPERANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EPIDEMIC; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; JAPAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NEONATAL TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME LIKE EXANTHEMATOUS DISEASE; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION IMMUNITY; PATHOGENESIS; TOXIN;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ENTEROTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; JAPAN; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PREGNANCY; SUPERANTIGENS;

EID: 84887714651     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.12094     Document Type: Article

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