Several foodborne bacteria including staphylococcus, streptococcus, Yersinia and clostridium have superantigens.
Many of these are thought to be associates with several autoimmune disorders such as rheumatic heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Grave disease and Crohn disease.
What are autoimmune disorders? Autoimmune disorders are disease caused by the body producing an inappropriate immune response against its own tissue.
Normally, the immune system should be able to distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘not self’ and only attacks those tissues that it recognizes as ‘not self’.
Graves disease is an autoimmune thyroid disease mediated by autoantibodies to the thyrotropin receptor. The disease may be inked to an infection with Y. enterocolitica serotype 0:3.
Campylobacter jejuni leads to a serious autoimmune disorder that affects peripheral nervous system resulting in flaccid paralysis called Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Autoimmune disorders foodborne infection
