Literature DB >> 11176572

Failure to demonstrate Chlamydia pneumoniae in cardiovascular tissue from children with Kawasaki disease.

M R Hammerschlag1, J Boman, A H Rowley.   

Abstract

Chlamydia pneumoniae has been associated with atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction in adults. Coronary artery tissues of five fatal cases of Kawasaki disease were examined by PCR; none was positive.

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Year:  2001        PMID： 11176572     DOI： 10.1097/00006454-200101000-00015

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Pediatr Infect Dis J        ISSN： 0891-3668            Impact factor:   2.129


  3 in total

1.  Elevated levels of matrix metalloproteinase 9 and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 1 during the acute phase of Kawasaki disease.

Authors:  Pong Kian Chua; Marian E Melish; Qigui Yu; Richard Yanagihara; Kara S Yamamoto; Vivek R Nerurkar
Journal:  Clin Diagn Lab Immunol       Date:  2003-03

Review 2.  Kawasaki disease: what is the epidemiology telling us about the etiology?

Authors:  David Burgner; Anthony Harnden
Journal:  Int J Infect Dis       Date:  2005-07       Impact factor: 3.623

Review 3.  Infection and vasculitis.

Authors:  Cristina C Belizna; Mohamed A Hamidou; Hervé Levesque; Loic Guillevin; Yehuda Shoenfeld
Journal:  Rheumatology (Oxford)       Date:  2009-03-03       Impact factor: 7.580
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