Multiple sclerosis onset: Could mycobacteria play a role?

Friday, February 26, 2010 - 13:21 in Health & Medicine

A non-pathogenic bacterium is capable to trigger an autoimmune disease similar to the multiple sclerosis in the mouse, the model animal which helps to explain how human diseases work. This is an unprecedented mechanism which could explain how this terrible central nervous system disease starts up in humans.

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