Elevated Anti-Streptococcal Antibodies in Patients with Recent Narcolepsy Onset

Abstract

Narcolepsy-cataplexy has long been thought to have an autoimmune origin. Although susceptibility to narcolepsy, like many autoimmune conditions, is largely genetically determined

Keywords

• Narcolepsy
• autoimmune
• post-streptococcal
• Anti Streptolysin O (ASO)
• Anti DNAse B (ADB)
• helicobacter pillory
• a streptococcal infections
• hypocretin-deficiency
• csf hypocretin-1
• glomerulonephritis
• population
• disorders
• serum