Infectious triggers for inflammatory neurological diseases
Kai W. Wucherpfennig
Department of Cancer Immunology & AIDS Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Neurology Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts, USA
kai_wucherpfennig@dfci.harvard.edu
Do autoimmune diseases develop 'spontaneously' or are they induced by environmental triggers, such as infectious agents? This is a central—and challenging—question in the autoimmunity field. A new study in this issue provides strong evidence for a virus-induced autoimmune process in a human neurological disease. (pages 509−513)
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