Association of human herpes virus 6 (HHV-6) with multiple sclerosis: Increased IgM response to HHV-6 early antigen and detection of serum HHV-6 DNA

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1394-1397

  Soldan, Samantha S ^a   Berti, Rossana ^a   Salem, Nazi ^b   Secchiero, Paola ^c   Flamand, Louis ^c   Calabresi, Peter A ^a   Brennan, Meghan B ^a   Maloni, Heidi W ^a   Mcfarland, Henry F ^a   Lin, Hun Chi ^b   Patnaik, Madhumita ^b   Jacobson, Steven ^a  

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

^b Specialty Laboratories   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS DNA;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 17444453701     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1297-1394     Document Type: Article

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