@article{7045,
  keywords = {Autoantibodies, Autoimmune Diseases, Autoimmunity, Cytokines, Humans, Immunity, Cellular, Immunoglobulin G, leprosy, Models, Biological, Mycobacterium, Mycobacterium Infections, Time Factors, Tuberculosis},
  author = {Rook G A and Stanford J L},
  title = {Slow bacterial infections or autoimmunity?},
  abstract = {<p>In this article, Graham Rook and John Stanford propose that a group of idiopathic diseases that are often associated with a degree of autoimmunity and arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, sarcoidosis and psoriasis, are caused by extremely slow-growing bacteria. They suggest that these diseases are one end of a continuous spectrum caused by related slow-growing genera, which ranges from rheumatoid arthritis, through Takayasu's arteritis and Whipple's disease, to reach the conventional mycobacterioses such as tuberculosis and leprosy.</p>},
  year = {1992},
  journal = {Immunology today},
  volume = {13},
  pages = {160-4},
  month = {1992 May},
  issn = {0167-5699},
  doi = {10.1016/0167-5699(92)90119-R},
  language = {eng},
}