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Tracing environmental markers of autoimmunity: introducing the infectome.
Immunologic research - 1 Jul 2013
Bogdanos Dimitrios P, Smyk Daniel S, Invernizzi Pietro, Rigopoulou Eirini I, Blank Miri, Sakkas Lazaros, Pouria Shideh, Shoenfeld Yehuda
Abstract excerpt
We recently introduced the concept of the infectome as a means of studying all infectious factors which contribute to the development of autoimmune disease. It forms the infectious part of the exposome, which collates all environmental factors contributing to the development of disease and studies the sum total of burden which leads to the loss of adaptive mechanisms in the body. These studies complement...
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