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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: Microbiol Spectr. 2019 Jul;7(4):10.1128/microbiolspec.GPP3-0045-2018. doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.gpp3-0045-2018

Table 1.

Types of Immunological Mimicry (Cross-reactivity)

I. Identical amino acid sequences in different proteins
II. Similar protein structures shared among different proteins
III. Diverse molecules such as DNA, carbohydrates and proteins