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Molecular epidemiology of enteroviruses with special reference to their potential role in the etiology of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). A review.
Clinical and diagnostic virology - 1 Apr 1998
Hovi T
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BACKGROUND: Several lines of evidence suggest that enterovirus infections may be involved in the etiology of the insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Often in the literature, a reference is given to specifically diabetogenic strains of enterovirus but there is no systematic assessment about the generation of such strains in the course of evolution or about their abundance among the 64 enterovirus serotypes...
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