Witebsky's postulates are a series of criteria developed by Ernst Witebsky used to determine if a condition could be considered autoimmune.^[1]

Modern revisions consider three types of evidence:

• direct evidence from transfer of pathogenic antibody or pathogenic T cells
• indirect evidence based on reproduction of the autoimmune disease in experimental animals, and
• circumstantial evidence from clinical clues.

[edit] See also

• Koch's postulates

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Rose NR, Bona C (September 1993). "Defining criteria for autoimmune diseases (Witebsky's postulates revisited)". Immunol. Today 14 (9): 426–30. doi:10.1016/0167-5699(93)90244-F. PMID 8216719. 

This immunology article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e