Cross-targeting autoimmunity in parkinson's caused by Nocardia mycobacteria and a flu virus

Cross-targeting is when 2 infections target the immune system on one place and an autoimmune disease results.  Parkinson's in this case is being considered an autoimmune disease.


Nocardia and parkinson's
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-05-17/news/mn-286_1_nocardia-infection
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC228573/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8420152
http://drbroxmeyer.netfirms.com/parkinsons.pdf
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/bjmbr/v37n4/5145.pdf
http://www.intechopen.com/books/mechanisms-in-parkinson-s-disease-models-and-treatments/filterable-forms-of-nocardia-an-infectious-focus-in-the-parkinsonian-midbrains

flu virus and parkinson's
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21668692
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22474298
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23271861
http://www.parkinson.org/NationalParkinsonFoundation/files/6d/6dea0022-01a5-4d55-926c-42efa0084c18.pdf
https://www.michaeljfox.org/foundation/grant-detail.php?grant_id=711

http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=6dadedc5d21f2210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD