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Chlamydia pneumoniae-specific circulating immune complexes in patients with chronic coronary heart disease.
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BACKGROUND: An association of chronic Chlamydia pneumoniae infection to coronary heart disease has been suggested recently. In a recent study, we demonstrated circulating immune complexes containing chlamydial genus-specific lipopolysaccharide in patients with coronary heart disease. The objective of the present study was to investigate whether C. pneumoniae species-specific immune complexes are present in chronic coronary heart disease. METHODS AND RESULTS: The presence of Chlamydia-specific circulating immune complexes was studied in 46 patients with chronic coronary heart disease and in control subjects. Chlamydial lipopolysaccharide-containing immune complexes were detected with the antigen-specific capture method, and they were present in 41% of patients and 15% of control subjects (p < 0.01). The presence of C. pneumoniae antibodies in circulating immune complexes was studied by testing the specificity of antibodies derived from isolated and dissociated immune complexes by microimmunofluorescence testing and immunoblotting. The C. pneumoniae indexes based on the relative amount of immune complex-derived antibodies and free antibodies were significantly higher among patients compared with control subjects (median, 1/8 versus 1/16; p < 0.001). Immune complex bound antibodies showed specificity for 98-kd and 42-kd proteins of C. pneumoniae. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that the majority of the patients with chronic coronary heart disease have a chronic C. pneumoniae infection in which chlamydial components have an easy access to circulation to form immune complexes with preexisting antibodies. These findings give further evidence for the association of chronic C. pneumoniae infection with coronary heart disease.
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- Linnanmäki, E., Leinonen, M., Mattila, K., Nieminen, M. S., Valtonen, V, & Saikku, P.
- Venue
- Circulation
- Published
- 1993-04
- Volume
- 87
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1130-1134
- ISSN
- 0009-7322 (ISSN-L)
- 1524-4539
- OpenAlex
- W1978149031
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- 283
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 4.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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