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Kawasaki disease may be a hyperimmune reaction of genetically susceptible children to variants of normal environmental flora

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology that occurs predominantly in children <5 years of age. For the etiopathogenesis of KD, there is no agreement even as to whether KD is an infectious disease or an immune-mediated disease. The epidemiologic characteri...

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Autores principales: Lee, Kyung-Yil, Han, Ji-Whan, Lee, Joon-Sung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7117004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17337130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2006.12.051