Antiparasitic antibodies occur with similar frequency in patients with clinically established multiple sclerosis with or without oligoclonal bands in the cerebrospinal fluid

The "hygiene hypothesis" postulates an inverse relationship between the prevalence of parasitic infections and the frequency of multiple sclerosis (MS). Objective: It was to study whether antibodies against parasites could be demonstrated more frequently in blood serum from MS patients wit...

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Published in:	Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Main Authors:	Fabiana Cruz Gomes da Fonseca-Papavero, Dagoberto Callegaro, Paulo Diniz da Gama, Jose Antonio Livramento, Adelaide Jose Vaz, Luis dos Ramos Machado
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Thieme Revinter Publicações 2013-08-01
Subjects:	hipotese da higiene esclerose multipla bandas oligoclonais antígenos de Taenia anticorpos antiparasitarios
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2013000800512&lng=en&tlng=en