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BCG and autoimmunity
(Academic Press, 2024)The nonspecific effects of BCG are not fully understood nevertheless, “trained immunity” and “heterologous lymphocyte responses” have been suggested. For instance, intravesical BCG therapy used for the treatment of bladder ... -
Ferritin – From iron, through inflammation and autoimmunity, to COVID-19
(Academic Press, 2022)While it took decades to arrive to a conclusion that ferritin is more than an indicator of iron storage level, it took a short period of time through the COVID-19 pandemic to wonder what the reason behind high levels of ... -
Infection and autoimmune liver diseases
(Academic Press, 2024)Autoimmune liver diseases (AiLD) comprise a heterogeneous group of disorders inflicting damage to the liver. Those diseases are characterized by an immune-mediated destruction of the hepatocytes (autoimmune hepatitis, AIH) ... -
Infection and Autoimmunity
(Academic Press, 2024)In 2020 we lost Noel Rose, co-editor of the classic Infection and Autoimmunity. To honor and respect his work, a group of experts in the field have taken the initiative to make this book perpetual. The third edition of ... -
Infection and autoimmunity – an ıntroductory note
(Academic Press, 2024)Almost every infectious agent was linked in one way or another to various responses from the immune system. The responses range from normal reaction to a vast majority of autoimmune manifestations. Led by molecular mimicry, ... -
Infections and Behçet Disease
(Academic Press, 2024)Behçet disease (BD) is a chronic multisystem disorder of unknown etiology characterized by various degrees of vasculitis affecting all sizes of blood vessels (Davatchi, 2018 [1]). BD is thought to be an autoinflammatory ... -
Infections and celiac disease
(Academic Press, 2024)Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic autoimmune disease with a global prevalence of 1%. It is known to develop after ingestion of gluten-rich foods in genetically susceptible individuals. Variants in HLA-DQA1 and HLA-DQB1 genes ... -
Infections in the immune interplay of inflammatory bowel disease
(Academic Press, 2024)Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), namely ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), is a chronic, relapsing, multi-factorial disease characterized by inflammation of the intestine. While the etiology of IBD is still ... -
Malaria and autoimmunity
(Academic Press, 2024)Malaria is a vector-borne parasitic disease. In 2020, there were 241 million cases of malaria and 627,000 deaths worldwide. The first connection between Malaria and autoimmunity was documented in 1968 by Brian Greenwood. ... -
Parvovirus and autoimmune diseases
(Academic Press, 2024)For decades, the role of viruses in the initiation and exacerbation of autoimmune disorders have been widely documented. Recently, a growing number of studies have been questioning the relationship between human parvovirus ... -
Renal autoimmunity: the role of bacterial and viral infections – an extensive review
(Academic Press, 2024)Autoimmunity is a process by which the loss of self-tolerance results in an immune attack against the body own tissues and organs. For autoimmunity to occur, various elements serving as triggers were described by which ... -
Rheumatoid arthritis and infections: not only a coincidence
(Academic Press, 2024)Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory joint disease affecting the synovial membrane damaging the cartilage and bone and leading to destructive arthritis, if left untreated [1]. In fact, RA is not a joint ... -
Streptococcus pneumoniae and autoimmunity
(Academic Press, 2024)The genus Streptococcus includes 49 species, 35 of which have been identified as a cause of infections in humans. Species of Streptococcus are divided into groups based on the antigenic structure of the cell wall alongside ... -
Viral infections and type 1 diabetes mellitus – guilty viruses in the court of autoimmunity
(Academic Press, 2024)Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D), previously known as insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes, is a chronic disease characterized by an autoimmune-induced pancreatic damage resulting in the destruction of beta cells. Although ... -
Viral infections, myocarditis, and autoimmune heart disease
(Academic Press, 2024)Myocarditis, and autoimmune heart disease, are classical examples of the interaction of infectious agents, particularly viruses, and the immune system in producing an autoimmune phenomena or disorder. Numerous components ...