Multiple Sclerosis as a Retrotroviral Disease? Epidemiological Considerations in Relation to HTLV-I Epidemiology
作者:
Sven Haahr,
Mette Sommerlund,
Anné Møller-Larsen,
期刊:
Neuroepidemiology
(Karger Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 5-6
页码: 232-235
ISSN:0251-5350
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1159/000110277
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: HTLV-I;Multiple sclerosis;Retrovirus infection
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
The intrafamilial epidemiology of multiple sclerosis was compared with the known intrafamilial epidemiology of infections with HTLV-I. Infections with this retrovirus most often have a subclinical course, but can cause leukemia or a neurological disease resembling multiple sclerosis. Through the Danish Multiple Sclerosis Registry, information was obtained on 79 parent-child cases of multiple sclerosis, and in 55 cases further information was obtained through questionnaires. The study did not reveal any common intrafamilial pattern of MS and HTLV-I infections. It can be concluded that if multiple sclerosis is associated with a specific ''MS virus'', it is hardly one with the same epidemiology as HTLV-I, maybe because MS could be a multifactorial disease only developing if various factors coincide in the same person.
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