The significance of immune disorder in tropical spastic paraparesis

Human Antibodies

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-137

  Smikle, Monica F ^a   Barton, Everard N ^a   Morgan, Owen St C ^a   Luseko, John ^a   Bailey, Valrie E ^a   Williams, Evadne M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b National Public Health Laboratory   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CARDIOLIPIN; COMPLEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; STOMACH PARIETAL CELL; SYPHILIS; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 0033368918     PISSN: 10932607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/hab-1999-9207     Document Type: Article

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