Antineutrophil cytoplasm antibodies in Kawasaki disease.

Antineutrophil cytoplasm antibodies in Kawasaki disease.

Autoantibodies against components of neutrophil cytoplasm develop during adult vasculitic diseases such as Wegener's granulomatosis and microscopic polyarteritis, and they are predominantly of the IgG class. Similar but distinct antibodies have been described in children with Kawasaki disease and both IgM and IgG class antibodies are represented. This adds another clinically distinct childhood ...

Negative antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in Behçet's disease.

Antineutrophil cytoplasm autoantibodies: usefulness in rheumatology.

The primary vasculitidies are complex diseases with varied clinical manifestations, which may be common to those present in multiple diseases. The antineutrophil cytoplasm autoantibodies (ANCA) led to a revolution in the diagnosis and research of these diseases, being the first and so far, the only biomarkers for three of these diseases, which affect small caliber vessels. From their descriptio...

Epstein-Barr Virus Antibodies in Kawasaki Disease

The prevalent ages at onset for Kawasaki Disease (KD) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection are known to be similar in Korea and Japan. We evaluated the correlation between EBV infection and KD. The antibodies to EBV such as anti-viral capsid antigen (VCA) IgG and IgM, anti-diffuse and restricted early antigen IgG (anti-EADR IgG), and the anti-EBV determined nuclear antigen IgG (anti-EBNA IgG)...

Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Infection with this bacterium is known to induce the development of autoantibodies of which a few are also known to be diagnostic markers for some other diseases. Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies (ANCA's) are among those autoantibodies used in clinical setting for diagnosing systemic vasculitic sy...