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SUBMITTER: Glasner C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5389034 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Glasner Corinna C van Timmeren Mirjan M MM Stobernack Tim T Omansen Till F TF Raangs Erwin C EC Rossen John W JW de Goffau Marcus C MC Arends Jan P JP Kampinga Greetje A GA Koedijk Denny G A M DG Neef Jolanda J Buist Girbe G Tavakol Mehri M van Wamel Willem J B WJ Rutgers Abraham A Stegeman Coen A CA Kallenberg Cees G M CG Heeringa Peter P van Dijl Jan Maarten JM
Scientific reports 20150202
Chronic nasal carriage of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus in patients with the autoimmune disease granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is a risk factor for disease relapse. To date, it was neither known whether GPA patients show similar humoral immune responses to S. aureus as healthy carriers, nor whether specific S. aureus types are associated with GPA. Therefore, this study was aimed at assessing humoral immune responses of GPA patients against S. aureus antigens in relation to the gene ...[more]