Searching for the cause of Kawasaki disease — cytoplasmic inclusion bodies provide new insight
- 1 May 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Reviews Microbiology
- Vol. 6 (5), 394-401
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1853
Abstract
Although Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children in the developed world, its aetiology remains unknown. In this Opinion, Anne Rowley and colleagues discuss evidence, including recently identified cytoplasmic inclusion bodies, which suggests that KD is caused by an infectious agent.This publication has 102 references indexed in Scilit:
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