IMMUNOLOGIC RELATION OF STREPTOCOCCAL AND TISSUE ANTIGENS : III. PRESENCE IN HUMAN SERA OF STREPTOCOCCAL ANTIBODY CROSS-REACTIVE WITH HEART TISSUE. ASSOCIATION WITH STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION, RHEUMATIC FEVER, AND GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
Sera from patients with recent streptococcal infection or non-suppurative sequelae exhibit with variable frequency a precipitin reaction in agar gel with a partially purified streptococcal antigen which has been shown previously to be immunologically related to human heart tissue. This precipitin c...
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The Rockefeller University Press
1964
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2137853/ |