Can class I epitope of M protein be a diagnostic marker for rheumatic fever in populations endemic for group A streptococci?

Lancet. 1998 Jun 20;351(9119):1860. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)78806-1.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antigens, Bacterial*
  • Australia / epidemiology
  • Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / immunology*
  • Biomarkers
  • Carrier Proteins
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Connectin
  • Endemic Diseases / statistics & numerical data*
  • Histocompatibility Antigens Class I / blood*
  • Humans
  • Immunodominant Epitopes / blood*
  • Immunoglobulin G / blood*
  • Muscle Proteins*
  • Myeloma Proteins*
  • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
  • Prevalence
  • Rheumatic Fever / epidemiology
  • Rheumatic Fever / immunology*
  • Rheumatic Heart Disease / epidemiology
  • Rheumatic Heart Disease / immunology*
  • Saudi Arabia / ethnology
  • Seroepidemiologic Studies
  • Streptococcus pyogenes / immunology*
  • Thailand / ethnology

Substances

  • Antigens, Bacterial
  • Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
  • Biomarkers
  • Carrier Proteins
  • Connectin
  • Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
  • Immunodominant Epitopes
  • Immunoglobulin G
  • Muscle Proteins
  • Myeloma Proteins
  • multiple myeloma M-proteins
  • streptococcal M protein