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A combination of different types of data suggests that some multiple sclerosis patients respond immunologically to, and have cerebrospinal T cells containing, a retrovirus that is related to, but distinct from, the three types of human T-cell lymphotropic viruses. The role of this virus in multiple sclerosis is uncertain.
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Koprowski, H., DeFreitas, E., Harper, M. et al. Multiple sclerosis and human T-cell lymphotropic retroviruses. Nature 318, 154–160 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/318154a0
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