Analysis of viral and genetic factors in South African patients with multiple sclerosis

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 163-169

  De Villiers, J Nico P ^a   Treurnicht, Florette K ^b   Warnich, Louise ^c   Carr, Jonathan ^b   Van Rensburg, Susan J ^d   Kotze, Maritha J ^a  

^a Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Genetics; Macrophage; Multiple sclerosis; Retrovirus

Indexed keywords

CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 1; NATURAL RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 1; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PEDIGREE; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AFRICA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DNA, VIRAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PEDIGREE; RETROVIRIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 38049063658     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-006-9016-3     Document Type: Article

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