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Relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and occurence of autoimmune thyroiditis

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen |
2008

Abstract

There is the same prevalence of H. pylori infection in children with autoimmune thyroiditis and in healthy children. H. pylori stimulates significantly immunocompetent cells to produce cyto- and chemokines in both groups of children.