Vaccination and Infection as Causative Factors in Japanese Patients With Rasmussen Syndrome: Molecular Mimicry and HLA Class I

Rasmussen syndrome is an intractable epilepsy with a putative causal relation with cellular and humoral autoimmunity. Almost half of the patients have some preceding causative factors, with infections found in 38.2%, vaccinations in 5.9% and head trauma in 8.9% of Japanese patients. In a patient wit...

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Principais autores: Yukitoshi Takahashi, Kazumi Matsuda, Yuko Kubota, Jiro Shimomura, Etsuko Yamasaki, Tatsuya Kudo, Katsuyuki Fukushima, Hitoshi Osaka, Noriyuki Akasaka, Atsushi Imamura, Shinji Yamada, Naomi Kondo, Tateki Fujiwara
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Wiley 2006-01-01
coleção:Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Acesso em linha:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17402520600589522