Can Diabetes Mellitus Result from an Infectious Disease?

1 March 1973

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Hospital Practice

Vol. 8 (3) , 124-130
https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1973.11706370

Abstract

The possibility that under certain circumstances viral infections may be diabetogenic is once again a live issue. Investigators have induced a diabetes-like condition in animals, and interstitial, cell-mediated pancreatitis has been shown to be a consistent finding in congenital rubella. The ensuing diabetes appears to result from necrobiosis and/or mitotic inhibition of the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans.

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