Viruses and salivary gland disease: are there associations?
Viruses can cause sialadenitis and may be associated with other diseases of salivary glands, particularly immunologically mediated and neoplastic lesions. The evidence that such an association with Sjögren's syndrome is causal is reviewed here and shown to be fairly tenuous at present.
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D012466:Salivary Gland Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D012468:Salivary Gland Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D012793:Sialadenitis / Q000209:etiology; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome / Q000209:etiology; D014777:Virus Diseases