Suggesting the possible role of Turkey Herpesvirus or HVT-like as a predisposing factor or causative agent in multiple sclerosis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 926-929

  Bougiouklis, Petros A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; AVIAN LYMPHOMATOSIS HERPETOVIRUS; CHICKEN; DEMYELINATION; FEATHER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPHOCYTE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURKEY (BIRD); VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRUS 1, MELEAGRID; HUMANS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

AVES; GALLID HERPESVIRUS 2; GALLUS GALLUS; MELEAGRID HERPESVIRUS 1; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; SPONDIAS PURPUREA;

EID: 33745940719     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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