Expression of Innate Immunity Genes and Damage of Primary Human Pancreatic Islets by Epidemic Strains of Echovirus: Implication for Post-Virus Islet Autoimmunity

• Luis Sarmiento,

  Affiliations Cellular Autoimmunity Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden, Department of Virology, “Pedro Kouri” Tropical Medicine Institute, Havana, Cuba

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• Gun Frisk,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Mahesh Anagandula,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Eduardo Cabrera-Rode,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Genetics on Diabetes, National Institute of Endocrinology, Havana, Cuba

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• Merja Roivainen,

  Affiliation Intestinal Viruses Unit, Division of Health Protection, Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland

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• Corrado M. Cilio

  * E-mail: corrado.cilio@med.lu.se

  Affiliation Cellular Autoimmunity Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden

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