It can be difficult to tell the difference between strep throat symptoms and symptoms of a viral infection, like mononucleosis (mono), which is also common in teens. Just like strep throat symptoms, with mono you will experience a sore throat, fever, swollen lymph nodes, rash and body aches.
Type 1 Diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease results when the body's system for fighting infection (the immune system) turns against a part of the body. In diabetes, the immune system attacks the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas and destroys them. The pancreas then produces little or no insulin.
ISLET AUTOANTIBODIES AS MARKERS OF AUTOIMMUNE DIABETES. Many autoantibodies are detected at the onset of type 1 diabetes. Islet cell (cytoplasmic) autoantibodies (ICAs) and islet cell surface autoantibodies (ICSAs)4â9 were initially described in the 1970s.