Hepatitis virus induced autoimmunity

Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 217-218

  Vergani, Diego ^a   Gregorio, Germana V ^a,b   Choudhuri, Kaushik ^a   Ma, Yun ^a   Vegnente, Angela ^c   Mieli Vergani, Giorgina ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; Autoantigens; Autoimmunity; Cross reaction; Hepatitis B virus; Homologous sequences; Molecular mimicry

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0031844752     PISSN: 00015644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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