Viruses and thyroiditis: an update

Table 3 Evidence for infection in Grave's disease

in favour of infection	references	not in favour of infection	references
Levels of data: Epidemiological
seasonality of month of birth	[44]
higher diagnosis and relapse rate in spring and summer	[41, 42]
geographical distribution	[43]
antibodies or disease onset following subacute thyroiditis	[47–50]	nonspecific response to the inflammatory rection ?	[32]
HTLV1	[62]
HIV	[65]	lack of anti-thyroid antibodies before the beginning of HAART	[75]
Serological and/or circulating viral genome
HTLV1	[57, 60–62]
HIAP-1	[78]
HFV	[81, 84]	HFV	[20, 82, 83]
parvovirus	[106]	Enterovirus	[121]
HHV6, HHV7	[101]
Direct evidence of infection
HTLV-1	[64]
HIV-1	[70]	SV40	[72, 73]
		HIAP-1	[79]
HFV	[19, 80]	HFV	[83]
SV40	[85]	HSV, CMV	[97]

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