Article
Behçet's disease heterogeneity: cytokine production and oxidative burst of phagocytes are altered in patients with severe manifestations.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Perazzio Sandro F, Soeiro-Pereira Paulo Vitor, de Souza Alexandre Wagner S, Condino-Neto Antônio, Andrade Luis Eduardo C
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that classical phagocytic functions are constitutively stimulated in patients with Behçet's disease (BD). METHODS: Four study groups were analysed: active BD (aBD; n=30), inactive BD (iBD; n=31); septic patients (SP; n=25); healthy controls (HC; n=30). Microbicide activity against Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus sanguinis and Candida albicans was determined by means of...
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