Les infections à streptocoques peuvent être des déclencheurs environnementaux de la narcolepsie.

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L’article d’Emmanuel Mignot (& coll.) démontre qu’une infection à streptocoque peut être un déclencheur environnemental significatif dans la narcolepsie, en partant de l’hypothèse que cette pathologie a une origine auto-immune.

Le pouvoir pathogène des streptocoques peut donner des angines rouges, des infections cutanées (impétigo), des abcès, des infections broncho-pulmonaires… Ces angines peuvent être associées à la scarlatine et évoluer vers des complications comme le rhumatisme articulaire aigu (RAA).

Elevated anti-streptococcal antibodies in patients with recent narcolepsy onset.

STUDY OBJECTIVES

Narcolepsy-cataplexy has long been thought to have an autoimmune origin. Although susceptibility to narcolepsy, like many autoimmune conditions, is largely genetically determined, environmental factors are involved based on the high discordance rate (approximately 75%) of monozygotic twins. This study evaluated whether Streptococcus pyogenes and Helicobacter pylori infections are triggers for narcolepsy. DESIGN : Retrospective, case-control.

SETTING

Sleep centers of general hospitals. PARTICIPANTS : 200 patients with narcolepsy/hypocretin deficiency, with a primary focus on recent onset cases and 200 age-matched healthy controls. All patients were DQB1*0602 positive with low CSF hypocretin-1 or had clear-cut cataplexy.

MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS

Participants were tested for markers of immune response to beta hemolytic streptococcus (anti-streptolysin O [ASO] ; anti DNAse B [ADB]) and Helicobacter pylori [Anti Hp IgG], two bacterial infections known to trigger autoimmunity. A general inflammatory marker, C-reactive protein (CRP), was also studied. When compared to controls, ASO and ADB titers were highest close to narcolepsy onset, and decreased with disease duration. For example, ASO > or = 200 IU (ADB > or = 480 IU) were found in 51% (45%) of 67 patients within 3 years of onset, compared to 19% (17%) of 67 age matched controls (OR = 4.3 [OR = 4.1], P < 0.0005) or 20% (15%) of 69 patients with long-standing disease (OR = 4.0 [OR = 4.8], P < 0.0005]. CRP (mean values) and Anti Hp IgG (% positive) did not differ from controls.

Conclusion

Streptococcal infections are probably a significant environmental trigger for narcolepsy.

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auteurs : ARAN A, LIN L, NEVSIMALOVA S, PLAZZI G, HONG SC, WEINER K, ZEITZER J, MIGNOT E. Sleep 2009 ;32(8):979-83. Center for Sleep Sciences and Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA

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