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A 1983 workshop brought together scientists to reexamine the role of viral infection in multiple sclerosis in light of new technical opportunities and information on persistent viral infections.
A 1983 workshop convened to reexamine the potential role of viral infections in multiple sclerosis using newly available technical opportunities.
Historical viral-MS hypothesis retains relevance; leaves open whether modern tools can establish causality.
The suspicion that viruses are involved in multiple sclerosis (MS) now largely depends on epidemiological evidence. Numerous attempts to transmit MS have been unsuccessful, as have searches for viruslike particles or antigens. The April 1983 workshop "Detection of Virus Genes and Their Products in Chronic Neurological Disease," held at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health and National Multiple Sclerosis Society, brought together fifty-six scientists from eight countries to reexamine the issue of viral infection in MS for two reasons: the new information on persistent viral infections and the subtle mechanisms that link infection to disease, and the newly available technical opportunities to penetrate these mysteries.
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Haase et al. (1984) studied Multiple sclerosis. A 1983 workshop brought together scientists to reexamine the role of viral infection in multiple sclerosis in light of new technical opportunities and information on persistent viral infections.
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