Etiologic Aspect of Sarcoidosis as an Allergic Endogenous Infection Caused by Propionibacterium acnes

Figure 3

Quantitative real-time PCR of bacterial DNA in lymph node samples from Japanese and European patients with sarcoidosis. The horizontal dotted lines show the detection threshold, and samples with results under this line were considered negative. PA: P. acnes, PG: P. granulosum, MT: M. tuberculosis, and EC: E. coli.