Crucial Role of the CB3-Region of Collagen IV in PARF-Induced Acute Rheumatic Fever

Katrin Dinkla; Susanne R. Talay; Matthias Mörgelin; Rikki M. A. Graham; Manfred Rohde; D. Patric Nitsche-Schmitz; Gursharan S. Chhatwal

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004666

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Crucial Role of the CB3-Region of Collagen IV in PARF-Induced Acute Rheumatic Fever

Katrin Dinkla,

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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Susanne R. Talay,

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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Matthias Mörgelin,

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, BMC B14, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Rikki M. A. Graham,

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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Manfred Rohde,

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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D. Patric Nitsche-Schmitz,

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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Gursharan S. Chhatwal

* E-mail: gsc@helmholtz-hzi.de

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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Crucial Role of the CB3-Region of Collagen IV in PARF-Induced Acute Rheumatic Fever

Katrin Dinkla,
Susanne R. Talay,
Matthias Mörgelin,
Rikki M. A. Graham,
Manfred Rohde,
D. Patric Nitsche-Schmitz,
Gursharan S. Chhatwal

Published: March 2, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004666

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Streptococci induce many Post-Streptococcal-Reactive-Diseases

Posted by fritze on 22 Mar 2009 at 09:41 GMT

Dear Sir,

it is not only Acute Rheumatic Fever and Recurrent Rheumatic Heart Disease induced by Streptococci.

In General Praxis I observe since 30 years a complex variety of diseases again and again triggered by streptococcal infections.

My observations are now published as e-book:
Streptococci - pictures of disease.

http://www.grin.com/e-boo...

Until now, there is only the diagnosis ex juvantibus possible:
Treat with penicillin and symptoms vanish.

Best wishes

Yours Friedrich Flachsbart
Eisenacher Str. 6
37085 Göttingen
Germany

No competing interests declared.

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Crucial Role of the CB3-Region of Collagen IV in PARF-Induced Acute Rheumatic Fever

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