Hi there, thanks for clarifying. As an artist, I find it easier to analogize from an artistic viewpoint; hence, my specific analogy. I admire your tenacity in doing the searches at PubMed. These days I have neither the time nor the energy to do the indepth research I would like to do.
For the moment, I am content to accept what you say. And I certainly do not outright deny an involvement of kleb p in AS. I do, however, maintain that it is not necessarily true in all cases. I'm stubborn that way. Perhaps, one day, a kleb p test will be done on all potential AS cases and the results used in the same way as the HLA-B27 test - a positive result is a good indicator of AS, but a negative one does not necessarily rule out AS when the other symptoms are clearly AS related. However, I have a feeling that we are still a long way from that.
Consider my leg well stretched and my foot up (it's been propped on my hard drive while I type).
Hugs,
