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Multiple sclerosis would appear to be a neurological disease which has been described in various patients throughout the ages. The cause of the disease is unknown and has stimulated numerous studies over the last 150 years.
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Ebringer, A. (2015). History of the Attempts to Find the Origin of Multiple Sclerosis. In: Multiple Sclerosis, Mad Cow Disease and Acinetobacter. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02735-7_2
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