Antiviral immune response in patients with multiple sclerosis, healthy siblings and twins

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1527-1528

  Ristori, Giovanni ^a   Mechelli, Rosella ^a   Anderson, Jourdan ^b   Mengoni, Fabio ^c   Sauzullo, Ilaria ^c   Annibali, Viviana ^a   Cannoni, Stefania ^a   Aloisi, Francesca ^d   James, Judith A ^b   Salvetti, Marco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; STEROID;

ADULT; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LETTER; MEASLES VIRUS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; SEROLOGY; SIBLING; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS NUCLEAR ANTIGENS; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SIBLINGS;

EID: 78650145731     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458510380090     Document Type: Letter

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