TY - JOUR
KW - Autoantibodies
KW - Autoimmune Diseases
KW - Autoimmunity
KW - Cytokines
KW - Humans
KW - Immunity, Cellular
KW - Immunoglobulin G
KW - leprosy
KW - Models, Biological
KW - Mycobacterium
KW - Mycobacterium Infections
KW - Time Factors
KW - Tuberculosis
AU - Rook G A
AU - Stanford J L
AB - <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>
BT - Immunology today
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1642753?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1992 May
DO - 10.1016/0167-5699(92)90119-R
IS - 5
J2 - Immunol. Today
LA - eng
N2 - <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>
PY - 1992
SP - 160
EP - 4
T2 - Immunology today
TI - Slow bacterial infections or autoimmunity?
VL - 13
SN - 0167-5699
ER -