Ankylosing spondylitis and Klebsiella

• Main Author: Ebringer, Alan. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Rheumatology.; Medicine & Public Health.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Ankylosing spondylitis and Klebsiella is a comprehensive and informative text on the cause of Ankylosing spondylitis. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a condition which affects 20 million people worldwide and is likely caused or initiated by a bowel infection from Klebsiella bacteria. When a patient...

Table of Contents:

• Ankylosing spondylitis as a scientific problem
• History of the origin of ankylosing spondylitis
• The discovery of HLA-B27 in ankylosing spondylitis and related disorders
• Molecular mimicry between HLA-B27 and Klebsiella bacteria investigated by using rabbit antisera
• Molecular mimicry between HLA-B27 and Klebsiella bacteria investigated by using human tissue typing sera
• Muscle changes in ankylosing spondylitis
• Raised serum IgA is present in ankylosing spondylitis patients
• Faecal cultures in ankylosing spondylitis and uveitis
• Biochemical parameters and Klebsiella in ankylosing spondylitis
• Binding of Klebsiella antisera to HLA-B27 cells
• IgA antibodies to Klebsiella and other Gram-negative bacteria in ankylosing spondylitis
• IgA antibodies to Klebsiella measured by immunoblotting
• Antibodies to Klebsiella in ankylosing spondylitis measured by bacterial agglutination and ELISA against lipopolysaccharides
• Dutch and German patients with ankylosing spondylitis have antibodies to Klebsiella
• Spanish, Finnish and Swedish patients with ankylosing spondylitis have antibodies to Klebsiella
• Molecular mimicry between Klebsiella pullulanase enzyme, HLA-B27 and collagens I and IV
• Antibodies to Klebsiella and HLA-B27 peptides in ankylosing spondylitis patients from southern Japan
• Ankylosing spondylitis sera are cytotoxic to cells bearing HLA-B27 sequences
• Pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis and Klebsiella substrates
• Ankylosing spondylitis and the low starch diet
• The problem of Crohns disease and Klebsiella
• Ankylosing spondylitis and Popper sequences .