The common bacterial toxins hypothesis of sudden infant death syndrome
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Staphylococcal toxins and sudden infant death syndrome.
AIMS To investigate the hypothesis that commonly occurring bacterial toxins cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) by (1), determining in which tissues bacterial toxins are concentrated after intravenous injection in rats; and (2), seeing if the same tissues contain detectable toxins in cases of SIDS. METHODS The tissue distribution of intravenously injected staphylococcal enterotoxin A (S...
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From the Department of Pathology, Chil dren’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School — both in Boston (H.C.K.); and the Department of Pediatrics, Washing ton University School of Medicine, St. Louis (B.T.T.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Kinney at the Department of Pathol ogy, Enders Bldg. 1112, Children’s Hospi tal Boston, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, or at hannah.kinney@childrens...
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BACKGROUND Twins compared to singletons are at increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). AIMS To compare the epidemiology of SIDS in twins and singletons and to test the hypothesis that monozygous (MZ) were at greater risk of SIDS than dizygous (DZ) twins. METHODS Data from the Office for National Statistics on all registered live births and infant deaths with registered cause ...
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عنوان ژورنال: FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0928-8244,1574-695X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.1999.tb01322.x