Wednesday, October 9, 2013

churg-strauss and cross-targeting autoimmunity

Hypothesis: The cross-targeting of infections at the same tissue causes autoimmune disease.  One infection marks the outside while another marks the inside...only then does the immune system become confused and attack.

Churg-strauss syndrome: nasal polyps, asthma, rhinitis

staph or aspergillus?

Churg-strauss and rheumatoid
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12589235...rheumatoid factor was there and staph was too

Note that in the past  had made associations of Aspergillus with Churg-strauss:
http://angelabiggs.blogspot.com/2013/04/churg-strauss-autoimmune-vasculitis.html

Churg-stauss and hepatitis B
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845776/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1752586/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11791655

interesting especially after my other posts:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11361200

Takayasu: mycobacteria & hepatitis B
Churg-stauss: aspergillus & hepatitis B

Also keep in mind that I have connected Hashimoto's thyroid to fungal infections which means that Churg-strauss should have connections to Hashimoto's.

If the walls of the blood vessel become surface infected by staph or mycobacteria and then the cells themselves become infected with  a virus I believe autoimmune cross-targeting can occur.

The infections can be different in triggering the autoimmune cross-targeting....because it is the target that is significant. 



1 comment:

  1. Great post. Here's my first hand account of my fight with Churg Strauss Syndrome. Hopefully it will help others. Churg Strauss - My Story http://www.churg-strauss-syndrome.com

    -Ken

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