Attempts to implicate viruses in myasthenia gravis

Tomonobu Aoki; Daniel B. Drachman; David M. Asher; Clarence J. Gibbs; Sina Bahmanyar; Jerry S. Wolinsky

doi:10.1212/wnl.35.2.185

Attempts to implicate viruses in myasthenia gravis

Tomonobu Aoki, Daniel B. Drachman, David M. Asher, Clarence J. Gibbs, Sina Bahmanyar, Jerry S. Wolinsky

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We investigated the hypothesis that a persistent viral infection of the thymus gland might trigger the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis (MG). Thymus glands of nine patients with recent onset of MG were studied by a variety of techniques to detect the presence of occult viruses. No evidence of viral infection was found.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	185-192
Number of pages	8
Journal	Neurology
Volume	35
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.35.2.185
State	Published - Feb 1985

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