Rheumatic fever [electronic resource] : a model of a post-infectious autoimmune disease / Jorge Kalil.
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Animated audio-visual presentation with synchronized narration.
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Updated version of a talk first published in 2007.
Contents: Autoimmunity in humans -- Infectious agents can induce breakage of tolerance to self to trigger & maintain autoimmune disease -- Rheumatic Fever & Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) as paradigms of post-infectious autoimmune disease -- Medical & sociological importance of RHD -- Genes involved in susceptibility -- T cell mediated autoimmunity -- Molecular mimicry -- Role of Th1 cells in human autoimmunity -- How chemokines can drive disease to different site -- Identification of autoimmune vs. anti-infection triggering epitopes -- Vaccine development to avoid infections & autoimmune disease.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.