Failure to detect Chlamydia pneumoniae in the central nervous system of patients with MS
- 11 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 54 (1) , 265
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.54.1.265
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 …Keywords
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