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Measles-virus-specific IgG was measured in the serum of 100 patients who had presented with optic neuritis (ON) during 1960-74. When reviewed 41 of them were found to have developed definite symptoms and signs of multiple sclerosis (MS), their serum containing significantly higher titres of the antibody than sera from either the rest of the patients or a group of normal healthy controls. In a f...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.47.3.180