JC virus excreted by multiple sclerosis patients and paired controls from Hungary

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 45-48

  Stoner, Gerald L ^a   Agostini, Hansjürgen T ^a,c   Ryschkewitsch, Caroline F ^a   Komoly, Samuel ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b Jahn Ferenc Del Pesti korhaz Budapest   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Demyelination; Genotype; Polyomavirvs; Urine

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; JC VIRUS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031958020     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135245859800400201     Document Type: Article

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