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Letters to Editor
Nature Medicine 6, 841 - 842 (2000)
doi:10.1038/78561
"Catching heart disease": Antigenic mimicry and bacterial infections
Kurt Bachmaier1, Jenny Le1 & Josef M. Penninger1
- Amgen Institute, Ontario Cancer Institute Depts of
Medical Biophysics and Immunology University of Toronto, 620
University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5G 2C1
e-mail: kurtb@amgen.com
Supporters of the "new germ theory" argue that common human diseases are caused by infectious agents. Cardiovascular disease is predicted to be the commonest cause of death worldwide by the year 2020.
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