Linking chronic infection and autoimmune diseases: Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, SLC11A1 polymorphisms and type-1 diabetes mellitus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Paccagnini, Daniela ^a   Sieswerda, Lee ^b   Rosu, Valentina ^a   Masala, Speranza ^a   Pacifico, Adolfo ^c   Gazouli, Maria ^d   Ikonomopoulos, John ^e   Ahmed, Niyaz ^f   Zanetti, Stefania ^a   Sechi, Leonardo A ^a  

^a Sezione di Microbiologia clinica e sperimentale   (Italy)

^b Thunder Bay District Health Unit   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 1; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; NATURAL RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ADOLESCENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENETICS; INFECTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DENDRITIC CELLS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 70349498432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007109     Document Type: Article

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