Propionibacterium acnes-derived insoluble immune complexes in sinus macrophages of lymph nodes affected by sarcoidosis.

Propionibacterium acnes is thought to be a causative agent of sarcoidosis. Patients with sarcoidosis have circulating immune complexes. We attempted to detect P. acnes-derived immune complexes in sarcoid lesions.We evaluated formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded lymph node samples from 38 sarcoidosis...

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Main Authors: Yoshimi Suzuki, Keisuke Uchida, Tamiko Takemura, Masaki Sekine, Tomoki Tamura, Asuka Furukawa, Akira Hebisawa, Yumi Sakakibara, Nobuyasu Awano, Tomonari Amano, Daisuke Kobayashi, Mariko Negi, Tomoya Kakegawa, Yuriko Wada, Takashi Ito, Takashige Suzuki, Takumi Akashi, Yoshinobu Eishi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5798840?pdf=render