Chapter 1 Overview: Infectious Agents as Etiologic Triggers of Autoimmune Disease

Chapter 3 A Cartilage-Mimicking T-Cell Epitope on a 65K Mycobacterial Heat-Shock Protein: Adjuvant Arthritis as a Model for Human Rheumatoid Arthritis

Chapter 4 Klebsiella Pneumoniae and HLA B27-Associated Diseases of Reiter’s Syndrome and Ankylosing Spondylitis

Chapter 5 Molecular Mimicry and Microorganisms: A Role in the Pathogenesis of Myasthenia Gravis?

Chapter 6 Celiac Disease: Adenovirus and Alpha Gliadin

Chapter 7 Autoimmunity and Chagas’ Disease

Chapter 8 Immune Responses Against Myelin Basic Protein and/or Galactocerebroside Cross-React with Viruses: Implications for Demyelinating Disease

Chapter 9 Molecular Mimicry: Parasite Evasion and Host Defense

Chapter 10 Molecular Mimicry and Diabetes

Chapter 11 Molecular Mimicry as a Mechanism for the Cause and as a Probe Uncovering Etiologic Agent(s) of Autoimmune Disease