Three Common Viral Infections That Can Imitate, Trigger, or Worsen Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

One aspect to consider when SLE-like symptoms suddenly appear.

Stephanie Jyet Quan Loo
Microbial Instincts
9 min readAug 13, 2023

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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease. In SLE, the immune system becomes dysfunctional, where the immune cells become overly aggressive, less competent in their tasks, and fail…

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