Failure to detect Chlamydia pneumoniae in the central nervous system of patients with MS

Abstract
Ninety-nine CSF samples from 48 patients with MS and 51 patients with other neurologic diseases were collected at the University Hospital of Umeå between 1991 and 1998 and stored at −80 °C. Forty-five patients with MS were clinically definite using the criteria of Poser,2 2 had possible MS (one episode only), and 1 had Devic’s neuromyelitis optica. Thirty-one of the patients with MS …