Streptococcal throat infections and exacerbation of chronic plaque psoriasis: a prospective study.

PubWeight™: 1.99‹?› | Rank: Top 2%

🔗 View Article (PMID 14510985)

Published in Br J Dermatol on September 01, 2003

Authors

J E Gudjonsson1, A M Thorarinsson, B Sigurgeirsson, K G Kristinsson, H Valdimarsson

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Immunology, Dermatology and Microbiology, Landspitali University Hospital, Hringbraut, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Articles citing this

Pivotal role of dermal IL-17-producing γδ T cells in skin inflammation. Immunity (2011) 3.75

Immunopathogenic mechanisms in psoriasis. Clin Exp Immunol (2004) 1.82

New insights of T cells in the pathogenesis of psoriasis. Cell Mol Immunol (2012) 1.21

Peripheral blood T cell responses to keratin peptides that share sequences with streptococcal M proteins are largely restricted to skin-homing CD8(+) T cells. Clin Exp Immunol (2004) 1.18

Obesity in psoriasis: leptin and resistin as mediators of cutaneous inflammation. Br J Dermatol (2008) 1.08

The importance of disease associations and concomitant therapy for the long-term management of psoriasis patients. Arch Dermatol Res (2006) 1.03

The use of surveillance and preventative measures for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections in surgical patients. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control (2014) 0.95

Tonsillectomy as a treatment for psoriasis: a review. J Dermatolog Treat (2013) 0.94

Genetics of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Indian J Dermatol (2010) 0.89

Genetic dysbiosis: the role of microbial insults in chronic inflammatory diseases. J Oral Microbiol (2014) 0.86

The association of sore throat and psoriasis might be explained by histologically distinctive tonsils and increased expression of skin-homing molecules by tonsil T cells. Clin Exp Immunol (2013) 0.82

The role of focal infections in the pathogenesis of psoriasis and chronic urticaria. Postepy Dermatol Alergol (2013) 0.81

A new player on the psoriasis block: IL-17A- and IL-22-producing innate lymphoid cells. J Invest Dermatol (2014) 0.80

Providing Guidance for Patients With Moderate-to-Severe Psoriasis Who Are Candidates for Biologic Therapy: Role of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant. J Dermatol Nurses Assoc (2016) 0.78

Developing a diagnostic checklist of traditional Chinese medicine symptoms and signs for psoriasis: a Delphi study. Chin Med (2013) 0.78

Throat Infections are Associated with Exacerbation in a Substantial Proportion of Patients with Chronic Plaque Psoriasis. Acta Derm Venereol (2016) 0.77

Potential synergy between SNP and CpG-A or IL-1β in regulating transcriptional activity of IL-20 promoter. J Invest Dermatol (2013) 0.77

HLA-Cw6 homozygosity in plaque psoriasis is associated with streptococcal throat infections and pronounced improvement after tonsillectomy: A prospective case series. J Am Acad Dermatol (2016) 0.75

Streptococcal infection may make psoriasis worse but do antibiotics help? Br J Dermatol (2004) 0.75

Childhood hospitalisation with infections and later development of ankylosing spondylitis: a national case-control study. Arthritis Res Ther (2016) 0.75

Indications for tonsillectomy stratified by the level of evidence. GMS Curr Top Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Surg (2016) 0.75

Association between Mouth Breathing and Atopic Dermatitis in Japanese Children 2-6 years Old: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study. PLoS One (2015) 0.75

The role of tonsillectomy in psoriasis treatment. BMJ Case Rep (2015) 0.75

Neutrophil extracellular trap formation is increased in psoriasis and induces human β-defensin-2 production in epidermal keratinocytes. Sci Rep (2016) 0.75

A preliminary study of new single polymorphisms in the T helper type 17 pathway for psoriasis in the Korean population. Clin Exp Immunol (2016) 0.75

Immunotargeting in the management of psoriasis. Immunotargets Ther (2013) 0.75

Ustekinumab-induced remission of recalcitrant guttate psoriasis: A case series. JAAD Case Rep (2017) 0.75

The Role of the Skin and Gut Microbiome in Psoriatic Disease. Curr Dermatol Rep (2017) 0.75

Articles by these authors

Frequency of specific cancer types in dermatomyositis and polymyositis: a population-based study. Lancet (2001) 6.23

The relationship between the volume of antimicrobial consumption in human communities and the frequency of resistance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1999) 5.11

Do antimicrobials increase the carriage rate of penicillin resistant pneumococci in children? Cross sectional prevalence study. BMJ (1996) 4.80

Evidence for the introduction of a multiresistant clone of serotype 6B Streptococcus pneumoniae from Spain to Iceland in the late 1980s. J Infect Dis (1993) 3.94

Double blind, randomised study of continuous terbinafine compared with intermittent itraconazole in treatment of toenail onychomycosis. The LION Study Group. BMJ (1999) 3.81

Epidermal T lymphocytes and HLA-DR expression in psoriasis. Br J Dermatol (1984) 2.93

Familial chronic muco-cutaneous candidiasis. J Med Genet (1972) 2.88

Immune abnormalities associated with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis. Cell Immunol (1973) 2.81

Emergence and spread of vancomycin resistance among enterococci in Europe. Euro Surveill (2008) 2.78

T-cell subpopulations in the blood and skin of patients with psoriasis. Br J Dermatol (1984) 2.54

Lymphocyte abnormality in chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis. Lancet (1970) 2.38

Incidence of skin cancer in 5356 patients following organ transplantation. Br J Dermatol (2000) 2.36

Opsonization and antibodies to capsular and cell wall polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Infect Dis (1994) 2.11

Smoking, rheumatoid factor isotypes and severity of rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford) (2000) 2.01

Carriage of internationally spread clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae with unusual drug resistance patterns in children attending day care centers in Lisbon, Portugal. J Infect Dis (2000) 1.96

Immunopathogenic mechanisms in psoriasis. Clin Exp Immunol (2004) 1.82

Campylobacter spp. in Icelandic poultry operations and human disease. Epidemiol Infect (2003) 1.81

A prospective study on the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis among people with persistent increase of rheumatoid factor. Ann Rheum Dis (2000) 1.76

Clearance of psoriasis with low dose cyclosporin. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1986) 1.75

Prospective study of early rheumatoid arthritis. I. Prognostic value of IgA rheumatoid factor. Ann Rheum Dis (1984) 1.72

Genetic diversity and clonal patterns among antibiotic-susceptible and -resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizing children: day care centers as autonomous epidemiological units. J Clin Microbiol (2000) 1.64

Native-valve endocarditis due to Neisseria sicca: case report and review. Clin Infect Dis (1993) 1.63

Deep infection of cemented total hip arthroplasties caused by coagulase-negative staphylococci. J Bone Joint Surg Br (1989) 1.60

Expression of interferon-gamma receptors in normal and psoriatic skin. J Invest Dermatol (1992) 1.57

A new semiquantitative radiometric opsonin assay. Selective measurement of opsonizing capacity of the alternative pathway. Immunology (1978) 1.53

The effects of cyclosporin A on T lymphocyte and dendritic cell sub-populations in psoriasis. Br J Dermatol (1987) 1.53

Secukinumab induction and maintenance therapy in moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II regimen-finding study. Br J Dermatol (2013) 1.50

Efficacy and safety of secukinumab in the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase II dose-ranging study. Br J Dermatol (2013) 1.46

A radiometric assay for the combined measurement of phagocytosis and intracellular killing of Candida albicans. Clin Exp Immunol (1980) 1.46

Increasing penicillin resistance in pneumococci in Iceland. Lancet (1992) 1.45

PUVA and cancer: a large-scale epidemiological study. Lancet (1991) 1.44

Long-term cyclosporin for psoriasis. Br J Dermatol (1989) 1.42

IgA rheumatoid factor correlates with changes in B and T lymphocyte subsets and disease manifestations in rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol (1997) 1.42

Prognostic value of rheumatoid factors in rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol (1995) 1.41

Carriage of respiratory tract pathogens and molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization in healthy children attending day care centers in Lisbon, Portugal. Microb Drug Resist (1999) 1.38

Cyclosporin toxicity. Lancet (1990) 1.38

Treatment of chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis with leucocytes from HL-A compatible sibling. Lancet (1972) 1.37

Prospective study of early rheumatoid arthritis. II. Association of rheumatoid factor isotypes with fluctuations in disease activity. Ann Rheum Dis (1984) 1.36

A chromium release assay for phagocytic killing of Candida albicans. J Immunol Methods (1976) 1.35

Phagocytosis measured as inhibition of uridine uptake by Candida albicans. J Immunol Methods (1977) 1.33

Does smoking stimulate rheumatoid factor production in non-rheumatic individuals? APMIS (1998) 1.32

Immunological features in a case of chronic granulomatous candidiasis and its treatment with transfer factor. Clin Exp Immunol (1972) 1.31

Assessment of rapid methods of pneumococcal antigen detection in routine sputum bacteriology. J Clin Pathol (1985) 1.29

Epidermal T lymphocytes and dendritic cells in chronic plaque psoriasis: the effects of PUVA treatment. Clin Exp Immunol (1985) 1.29

Isotypes and opsonophagocytosis of pneumococcus type 6B antibodies elicited in infants and adults by an experimental pneumococcus type 6B-tetanus toxoid vaccine. Infect Immun (1998) 1.24

R-plasmid transfer in vivo: a prospective study. J Med Microbiol (1986) 1.23

Human polyomavirus in pregnancy. A model for the study of defence mechanisms to virus reactivation. Clin Exp Immunol (1983) 1.20

Risk factors for cutaneous malignant melanoma among aircrews and a random sample of the population. Occup Environ Med (2003) 1.20

Peripheral blood T cell responses to keratin peptides that share sequences with streptococcal M proteins are largely restricted to skin-homing CD8(+) T cells. Clin Exp Immunol (2004) 1.18

Molecular evolution in a multidrug-resistant lineage of Streptococcus pneumoniae: emergence of strains belonging to the serotype 6B Icelandic clone that lost antibiotic resistance traits. J Clin Microbiol (2000) 1.16

Participation of C3 in intracellular killing of Candida albicans. Scand J Immunol (1977) 1.16

Quality of life in 6497 Nordic patients with psoriasis. Br J Dermatol (2002) 1.16

Clinical importance of production of slime by coagulase negative staphylococci in chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. J Clin Pathol (1986) 1.15

Cellular immunity in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Proc R Soc Med (1974) 1.14

Use of monoclonal antibodies and F(ab')2 enzyme conjugates in ELISA for IgM, IgA and IgG rheumatoid factors. J Immunol Methods (1984) 1.13

Prevalence of resistance to ampicillin, gentamicin and vancomycin in Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium isolates from clinical specimens and use of antimicrobials in five Nordic hospitals. J Antimicrob Chemother (2003) 1.13

Acute bronchitis in adults. How close do we come to its aetiology in general practice? Scand J Prim Health Care (1997) 1.12

Population study of the importance of rheumatoid factor isotypes in adults. Ann Rheum Dis (1992) 1.10

Relation between bone erosions and rheumatoid factor isotypes. Ann Rheum Dis (1987) 1.09

Restoration of T-lymphocyte deficiency with dialysable leucocyte extract. Clin Exp Immunol (1974) 1.09

Obesity in psoriasis: leptin and resistin as mediators of cutaneous inflammation. Br J Dermatol (2008) 1.08

Psoralen photochemotherapy (PUVA) and pregnancy. Arch Dermatol (1993) 1.08

Penicillin pharmacodynamics in four experimental pneumococcal infection models. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2001) 1.07

Renal function and biopsy findings after 5 years' treatment with low-dose cyclosporin for psoriasis. Br J Dermatol (1993) 1.06

Coagulase negative staphylococcal infections. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1985) 1.06

The potential role of mannan-binding lectin in the clearance of self-components including immune complexes. Scand J Immunol (2004) 1.06

IgG subclass response and opsonization of Streptococcus pneumoniae after vaccination of healthy adults. J Infect Dis (1990) 1.05

Occurrence of other malignancies in 1973 patients with basal cell carcinoma. J Am Acad Dermatol (1991) 1.04

Restricted T-cell receptor V beta gene usage in the skin of patients with guttate and chronic plaque psoriasis. Br J Dermatol (1993) 1.04

The effects of tobacco smoking and rheumatoid factor seropositivity on disease activity and joint damage in early rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford) (2006) 1.04

The frequency of CLA+ CD8+ T cells in the blood of psoriasis patients correlates closely with the severity of their disease. Clin Exp Immunol (2001) 1.03

Cord blood IgE levels are influenced by gestational age but do not predict allergic manifestations in infants. Pediatr Allergy Immunol (1994) 1.02

A multicentre, randomized, controlled study of the efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness of a combination therapy with amorolfine nail lacquer and oral terbinafine compared with oral terbinafine alone for the treatment of onychomycosis with matrix involvement. Br J Dermatol (2007) 1.02

Pneumonia caused by penicillin-non-susceptible and penicillin-susceptible pneumococci in adults: a case-control study. Scand J Infect Dis (1998) 1.02

PUVA and cancer risk: the Swedish follow-up study. Br J Dermatol (1999) 1.02

The effects of topical treatment with steroids or dithranol on epidermal T lymphocytes and dendritic cells in psoriasis. Scand J Immunol (1985) 1.01

Low mannose binding lectin predicts poor prognosis in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis. A prospective study. J Rheumatol (2001) 1.01

Control of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Lancet (1987) 1.00

Splenic uptake of immune complexes in man is complement-dependent. J Immunol (1993) 0.99

Seborrheic keratoses and cancer. J Am Acad Dermatol (1992) 0.99

Psoriasis patients who are homozygous for the HLA-Cw*0602 allele have a 2.5-fold increased risk of developing psoriasis compared with Cw6 heterozygotes. Br J Dermatol (2003) 0.99

Familial acute myeloid leukaemia with acquired Pelger-Huet anomaly and aneuploidy of C group. Br Med J (1972) 0.98

Combined elevation of IgM and IgA rheumatoid factor has high diagnostic specificity for rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatol Int (1998) 0.98

Immune responses of infants vaccinated with serotype 6B pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugated with tetanus toxoid. Pediatr Infect Dis J (1997) 0.97

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) screening test for detection of rheumatoid factor. Rheumatol Int (1986) 0.97

Intralesional cyclosporin in psoriasis: effects on T lymphocyte and dendritic cell subpopulations. Br J Dermatol (1989) 0.96

Epidermal rupture is the initiating factor for the Koebner response in psoriasis. Acta Derm Venereol (1990) 0.96

Efficacy, safety and tolerability of topical terbinafine nail solution in patients with mild-to-moderate toenail onychomycosis: results from three randomized studies using double-blind vehicle-controlled and open-label active-controlled designs. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol (2011) 0.96

An altered response by psoriatic keratinocytes to gamma interferon. Scand J Immunol (1988) 0.94

Successful plasma infusion treatment of a patient with C2 deficiency and systemic lupus erythematosus: clinical experience over forty-five months. Arthritis Rheum (1989) 0.94

A prospective study of the Koebner reaction and T lymphocytes in uninvolved psoriatic skin. Acta Derm Venereol (1988) 0.93

In-vitro efficacy of a central venous catheter complexed with iodine to prevent bacterial colonization. J Antimicrob Chemother (1992) 0.92

Invasive infections due to Streptococcus pyogenes: seasonal variation of severity and clinical characteristics, Iceland, 1975 to 2012. Euro Surveill (2014) 0.92

Letter: Specificity of transfer factor. Nature (1976) 0.92

Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in Iceland, 1995-2008: changing incidence and mortality. Clin Microbiol Infect (2011) 0.92

Preferential activation of CD4 T lymphocytes in the lamina propria of gluten-sensitive enteropathy. Clin Exp Immunol (1988) 0.91

Leg ulcers and squamous cell carcinoma. An epidemiological study and a review of the literature. Acta Derm Venereol (1993) 0.91