Chlamydia pneumoniae-specific humoral immune responses and clinical disease parameters in multiple sclerosis

Presence of Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA in

Presence of Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA in the cerebral spinal fluid is a common phenomenon in a variety of neurological diseases and not restricted to multiple sclerosis

✍ Jens Gieffers; Daniela Pohl; Johannes Treib; Rike Dittmann; Christoph Stephan; K 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 135 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract Chlamydial DNA and viable organisms have been reported in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. We investigated whether this phenomenon is specific for MS and not occurring in patients with other neurological diseases (OND) or in healthy controls and whether