Cargando…
Serological Evidence of Immune Priming by Group A Streptococci in Patients with Acute Rheumatic Fever
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is an autoimmune response to Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection. Repeated GAS exposures are proposed to ‘prime’ the immune system for autoimmunity. This notion of immune-priming by multiple GAS infections was first postulated in the 1960s, but direct experimental evide...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2016
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4957554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27499748 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01119 |