Similar humoral and cellular immunological reactivities to human herpesvirus 6 in patients with multiple sclerosis and controls

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 545-549

  Enbom, Malin ^a,b,c   Wang, Fu Zhang ^a,b   Fredrikson, Sten ^a   Martin, Claes ^a   Dahl, Helena ^a,b   Linde, Annika ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PURIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032771131     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.6.4.545-549.1999     Document Type: Article

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