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Intrafamilial spread of enterovirus infections at the clinical onset of type 1 diabetes
14 Jun 2013
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: At the clinical onset of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D), enterovirus (EV) infections are suspected to play a role. EVs in blood are seen as a possible biomarker of T1D. EV infections may occur in temporal and geographic clusters and may spread within families. OBJECTIVE: We checked whether EVs were present in the blood of newly diagnosed diabetic probands and of their consenting siblings and parents....
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