Viral damage or 'molecular mimicry'-placing the blame in myocarditis

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 631-632

  Rose, Noel R ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; COXSACKIE VIRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; HEART; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; PANCREAS;

COXSACKIEVIRUS;

EID: 0034088028     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76199     Document Type: Short Survey

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