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Enterovirus RNA is found in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in a majority of type 1 diabetic children at onset.
Diabetes - 1 Jun 2002
Yin Hong, Berg Anna-Karin, Tuvemo Torsten, Frisk Gun
Abstract excerpt
We have studied the occurrence of enterovirus (EV)-RNA at the onset of childhood type 1 diabetes in all 24 new cases of childhood type 1 diabetes during 1 year in Uppsala county, Sweden. We also studied 24 matched control subjects and 20 siblings of the patients. RNA was isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells and EV-RNA detected by RT-PCR. Primers (groups A and B) corresponding to conserved regions in...
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