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Multiple sclerosis and HTLV retroviruses

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, V. le dell'Università 30, I-00185, Rome, Italy

    C. Fieschi, C. Buttinelli, A. Allegretta & M. Salvetti

  2. Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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Fieschi, C., Buttinelli, C., Allegretta, A. et al. Multiple sclerosis and HTLV retroviruses. J Neurol 237, 329–330 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00314757

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