Infection and Autoimmunity

Autoimmune diseases are conditions where the immune system attacks the body organs instead of foreign invaders. This book deals with the various mechanisms by which infectious agents can trigger autoimmunity such as molecular mimicry and polyclonal activation. An overview is given with regard to bacteria, viruses, and parasites associated with autoimmunity, and a summary is given on classical autoimmune diseases and the infecting agents that can induce them.

List of contents

Part 1: Mechanisms of Autoimmunity Induction by Infections
Part 2: Viruses and autoimmune diseases
Part 3: Bacteria and autoimmunity
Part 4: Parasites and autoimmunity
Part 5: Infection and diseases

Product details

• Authors: Yehuda Shoenfeld, Yehuda Agmon Levin Shoenfeld
• Assisted by: Nancy Agmon Levin (Editor), Nancy Agmon-Levin (Editor), Noel Rose (Editor), Noel R Rose (Editor), Noel R. Rose (Editor), Noel Richard Rose (Editor), Rose Noel R. (Editor), Yehuda Shoenfeld (Editor), Shoenfeld Yehuda (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9780444632692
• ISBN: 978-0-444-63269-2
• No. of pages: 1040
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Immunologie, Immunology, Microbiology (non-medical), MEDICAL / Immunology, Mikrobiologie (nicht-medizinisch), MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Microbiology, Medical / Nursing, Infectious & contagious diseases, Infectious and contagious diseases