PMID: 8613483Nov 1, 1995Paper

The potential role of bacterial superantigens in the pathogenesis of Kawasaki syndrome

Journal of Clinical Immunology
D Y LeungP M Schlievert

Abstract

Kawasaki syndrome is an acute multisystem vasculitis of infancy and early childhood associated with high fever, mucocutaneous inflammation, and the development of coronary artery abnormalities. Despite the widely held belief that Kawasaki syndrome is an infectious disease, investigations have failed to identify a causal organism. Previous studies have demonstrated that this illness is associated with marked activation of monocyte/macrophages and the selective expansion of V beta 2-, less so, of V beta 8.1/8.2-expressing T cells in the peripheral blood from Kawasaki syndrome patients during the acute phase of their illness. These immunologic features are characteristic of diseases that are caused by bacterial toxins which act as superantigens. Staphylococcal enterotoxins and streptococcal exotoxins are prototypic superantigens which stimulate large populations of T cells expressing particular T-cell receptor beta-chain variable (V beta) gene segments. Using the V beta 2+ T-cell expansion as an "immunologic footprint" for a superantigen, we have extended these observations to the identification and isolation of a novel clone of toxic shock syndrome toxin-1-producing Staphylococcus aureus in the majority of patients with Kawasaki ...Continue Reading

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