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Multiple sclerosis-associated retrovirus (MSRV) in Sardinian MS patients
1Section of Experimental and Clinical Microbiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Viale San Pietro 43/B, I-07100 Sassari. doleivir@ssmain.uniss.it
Neurology
|February 13, 2002
Abstract:
Blood and CSF of Sardinian patients with MS and neurologic control subjects were tested for MS-associated retrovirus (MSRV). CSF detection in MS was 50% at clinical onset, increasing with temporal disease progression, and 40% in control subjects. In blood, MSRV was detected in all MS patients, in most patients with inflammatory neurologic diseases, and rarely in healthy blood donors. MSRV may represent a marker of neurologic diseases of inflammatory origin.