Background Medulloblastoma is the most common brain tumor in children, and its prognosis
is worse than for many other common pediatric cancers. Survivors undergoing treatment …

Invariable region (IR) 6 , an immunodominant conserved region of VlsE, the antigenic
variation protein of Borrelia burgdorferi is currently used for the serologic diagnosis of Lyme …

Background Histology and/or culture are generally considered the gold standard for the
detection of H. pylori infection. Especially in children, these tests may result in a false negative …

Objective This study was designed to investigate the pathogenic contributions of fibroblast‐like
synoviocytes (FLS) to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) by identifying pathways with …

Management of Lyme disease would benefit from a test to assess therapy outcome. Such a
test could be employed to ascertain if treatment of early Lyme disease was successful and …

A cohort of children with Lyme arthritis was used to evaluate the clinical and serologic profile
of the disease. During a 42-month period (June 1989 to December 1991), 44 patients (13 …

As more individuals receive outer surface protein A (OspA) vaccination, adverse effects not
detected during phase III clinical trials may become apparent. Although arthritis has been …

The medical records of 227 children ages 1 to 19 years referred to the Lyme disease pediatric
clinic over a 32-month period since May 1990 were reviewed. Clinico-serologic criteria for …

Cultures of Helicobacter pylori obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (strain
43504) were grown as isolated colonies or lawns on blood agar plates and in broth culture …

The frequency and specificity of antibodies that bind antigens of Borrelia burgdorferi in sera
from 200 individuals with no evidence of past or current Lyme disease was determined. Sera …