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Cases of Acute Measles Infection in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

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Humoral Immunity in Neurological Diseases

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Immunological findings have suggested an association between measles and multiple sclerosis (MS), and the possibility that MS is an age-dependent response to measles has been discussed. One of the author’s patients, a woman of 20 years with firm evidence of early MS including a mononuclear pleocytosis in the CSF and evidence of an intrathecal IgG synthesis, developed a clinically and serologically confirmed acute measles infection after having been in contact with a child with this disease. She had not had measles before and she had never been vaccinated against measles. A follow-up one year later confirmed the MS diagnosis. Thus, if measles can have a causal role in MS, it is probably not the only agent with this ability.

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Ryberg, B., Gudnadottir, M. (1979). Cases of Acute Measles Infection in Multiple Sclerosis Patients. In: Karcher, D., Lowenthal, A., Strosberg, A.D. (eds) Humoral Immunity in Neurological Diseases. NATO ASI Series, vol 24. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1003-7_7

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