Cerebrospinal fluid samples from patients with various neurological disorders have a transmissible cytotoxic activity with similar properties.
New Microbiol
; 29(2): 143-6, 2006 Apr.
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ABSTRACT
When inoculated into cell cultures to search for cytopathic viruses, six out of 384 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from patients with different neurological disorders proved to have a transmissible cytotoxic activity (TCA) not correlated to a conventional infectious agents. Properties shown by a TCA previously detected in the CSF sample of a patient with brain ischemia (Portolani et al., 2005) were shared by each of the newly isolated TCAs. We conclude that independently of the neurological clinical picture shown by the patient, the TCA detected in the CSF samples under study could have the same origin.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Doenças do Sistema Nervoso
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Animals
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Female
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Humans
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En
Revista:
New Microbiol
Assunto da revista:
MICROBIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2006
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Article
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