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Am J Psychiatry 1997; 154:110-112
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Identification of children with pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections by a marker associated with rheumatic fever

SE Swedo, HL Leonard, BB Mittleman, AJ Allen, JL Rapoport, SP Dow, ME Kanter, F Chapman and J Zabriskie
Section on Behavioral Pediatrics, Child Psychiatry Branch, NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892-1381, USA.

OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to determine whether a trait marker of rheumatic fever susceptibility (labeled D8/17) could identify children with pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders (obsessive- compulsive disorder and tic disorders) associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS). METHOD: Blood samples obtained from 27 children with PANDAS, nine children with Sydenham's chorea, and 24 healthy children were evaluated for D8/17 reactivity. Individuals were defined as D8/17 positive if they had 12% or more D8/17+ cells. RESULTS: The frequency of D8/17-positive individuals was significantly higher in both patient groups than it was among the healthy volunteers: 85% of the children with PANDAS and 89% of the children with Sydenham's chorea, compared with 17% of the healthy children, were D8/17 positive. Further, the mean number of D8/17+ cells was similar in the two patient groups and was significantly higher in these groups than in the group of healthy children. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that there may be a subgroup of D8/17-positive children who present with clinical symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette's syndrome, rather than Sydenham's chorea, but who have similar poststreptococcal autoimmunity.


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