Staphylococcus aureus and autoimmune uveitis reactivation in childhood: a possible correlation?

The role of infectious agents in autoimmune diseases has been the subject of several studies and is still under investigation. Here a paediatric case series of autoimmune uveitis is reported. An exacerbation of the ocular inflammation occurred in concomitance with nasal colonisation by Staphylococcu...

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Autores principales: Mora, Paolo, Kamberi, Erilda, Manzotti, Francesca, Zavota, Laura, Orsoni, Jelka G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19909504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-35-34
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author Mora, Paolo
Kamberi, Erilda
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Orsoni, Jelka G
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spelling pubmed-27797982009-11-20 Staphylococcus aureus and autoimmune uveitis reactivation in childhood: a possible correlation? Mora, Paolo Kamberi, Erilda Manzotti, Francesca Zavota, Laura Orsoni, Jelka G Ital J Pediatr Letter to the Editor The role of infectious agents in autoimmune diseases has been the subject of several studies and is still under investigation. Here a paediatric case series of autoimmune uveitis is reported. An exacerbation of the ocular inflammation occurred in concomitance with nasal colonisation by Staphylococcus aureus. BioMed Central 2009-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2779798/ /pubmed/19909504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-35-34 Text en Copyright ©2009 Mora et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editor
Mora, Paolo
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Manzotti, Francesca
Zavota, Laura
Orsoni, Jelka G
Staphylococcus aureus and autoimmune uveitis reactivation in childhood: a possible correlation?
title Staphylococcus aureus and autoimmune uveitis reactivation in childhood: a possible correlation?
title_full Staphylococcus aureus and autoimmune uveitis reactivation in childhood: a possible correlation?
title_fullStr Staphylococcus aureus and autoimmune uveitis reactivation in childhood: a possible correlation?
title_full_unstemmed Staphylococcus aureus and autoimmune uveitis reactivation in childhood: a possible correlation?
title_short Staphylococcus aureus and autoimmune uveitis reactivation in childhood: a possible correlation?
title_sort staphylococcus aureus and autoimmune uveitis reactivation in childhood: a possible correlation?
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19909504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-35-34
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