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Neurology
; 58(3): 471-3, 2002 Feb 12.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11839854
RESUMO
Blood and CSF of Sardinian patients with MS and neurologic control subjects were tested for MS-associated retrovirus (MSRV). CSF detection in MS was 50% at clinical onset, increasing with temporal disease progression, and 40% in control subjects. In blood, MSRV was detected in all MS patients, in most patients with inflammatory neurologic diseases, and rarely in healthy blood donors. MSRV may represent a marker of neurologic diseases of inflammatory origin.