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ArticleElectronic physician2016

Staphylococcal Enterotoxin A Detection from Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients' Blood and Synovial Fluid.

Ramezan Ali Ataee, Mahboobeh Sadat Kahani, Gholam Hossein Alishiri, Zyenab Ahamadi

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Article in Electronic physician, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Ramezan Ali AtaeePh.D. of Medical Microbiology, Professor, Department of Virology and Bacteriology, and Clinical Development Medical Center of Baqiyatallah Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mahboobeh Sadat KahaniM.Sc. of Microbiology, Researcher, Department of Virology and Bacteriology, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Gholam Hossein AlishiriM.D. of Rheumatology, Clinical Development Medical Center of Baqiyatallah Hospital and Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Zyenab AhamadiPh.D. of Biology, Assistant Professor, Research Center of Biology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences · IR

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Abstract

introductionDirect detection of microbial super antigens in synovial fluid of patients with rheumatoid arthritis may be able to guide to the design of cost-effective therapies. The purpose of this study was to assess the existence of Staphylococcal enterotoxin A (superantigen A) in the synovial fluid of patients with RA by the PCR and ELISA methods.

methodsThis experimental study was conducted on the synovial fluid of 103 RA patients from Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences' Rheumatology Clinic in Tehran, Iran in 2011-2014. Bacterial cultures, polymerase chain reaction with specific primer pairs and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) methods were used. The PCR products were subjected to sequence as a confirmatory molecular method results. The data were descriptively analyzed by SPSS Version 19.

resultsThe bacteriological study result indicated that, in four cases (3.8%) of the patients, bacterial strains were isolated. The result of PCR molecular method for staphylococcal enterotoxin A gene showed that, 42 of the patients (40.7%) tested positive for the ent A gene. The results of ELISA were positive for staphylococcal enterotoxin A (superantigen A) in 51 cases (49.51%) of the patients' synovial fluids. The results indicated that the possibility of detecting superantigen A in the SF of RA patients, but the origin of the enterotoxin A gene remained unknown.

conclusionsThe findings of this study may be able to alter the actual theory on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of RA patients. In addition, the results have shown the probability of an endogenous origin for the involved superantigen A in RA patients' synovial fluids.

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ELISAPCRrheumatoid arthritisstaphylococcal enterotoxin Asynovial fluid

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