| Literature DB >> 2880217 |
M Newton, K Cruickshank, D Miller, A Dalgleish, P Rudge, S Clayden, I Moseley.
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Of 13 West-Indian-born UK residents with spastic paraparesis of unknown cause, 11 were tested for serum antibody to human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 and all were positive. Their magnetic resonance imaging scans were normal or showed only minor abnormalities in the brain, and the spinal cord was normal in the 5 investigated. Of 48 patients with multiple sclerosis, mainly caucasian, none had antibody to HTLV-1 in the blood.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 2880217 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(87)90120-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lancet ISSN: 0140-6736 Impact factor: 79.321