Humoral immune responses of type 1 diabetes patients to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis lend support to the infectious trigger hypothesis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 320-326

  Sechi, Leonardo A ^a,d   Rosu, Valentina ^a   Pacifico, Adolfo ^a   Fadda, Giovanni ^b   Ahmed, Niyaz ^c   Zanetti, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

^d Sezione di Microbiologia clinica e sperimentale   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HEMAGGLUTININ; RECOMBINANT HEPARIN BINDING HEMAGGLUTININ; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; HEPARIN BINDING HEMAGGLUTININ; HEPARIN-BINDING HEMAGGLUTININ; LECTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYPOTHESIS; INFECTIOUS TRIGGER HYPOTHESIS; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; WHOLE CELL; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; LECTINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS;

EID: 40449131605     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00381-07     Document Type: Article

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