Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Graves’ disease (GD) is a common autoimmune disease of unknown origin. Evidence of an association between autoimmune thyroid diseases and viral infections is, however, emerging. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I presents both virally and self-derived antigens to circulating immune cells and plays a crucial role in the defense against viral infections. This study aimed to investigate the presence of enterovirus and HLA class I expression in a large GD coho...