Periodontal disease bacteria specific to tonsil in IgA nephropathy patients predicts the remission by the treatment.

<h4>Background</h4>Immunoglobulin (Ig)A nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common form of primary glomerulonephritis in the world. Some bacteria were reported to be the candidate of the antigen or the pathogenesis of IgAN, but systematic analysis of bacterial flora in tonsil with IgAN has no...

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Main Authors: Yasuyuki Nagasawa, Kenichiro Iio, Shinji Fukuda, Yasuhiro Date, Hirotsugu Iwatani, Ryohei Yamamoto, Arata Horii, Hidenori Inohara, Enyu Imai, Takeshi Nakanishi, Hiroshi Ohno, Hiromi Rakugi, Yoshitaka Isaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24489644/?tool=EBI