[Moreover, treatment of pre-diabetic NOD mice with an intravenous dose of heat killed Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis; bacillus Calmette-Guèrin (BCG)) protects them from developing type 1 diabetes, but instead precipitates an autoimmune rheumatic disease similar to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), characterised by accelerated and increased incidence of haemolytic anaemia (HA), anti-nuclear autoantibody (ANA) production, exacerbation of sialadenitis, and the appearance of immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis (GN).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE