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cord-328271-ma3s7hrs	Madden, David L.	Antibody to human and simian retrovirus, HTLV‐I, HTLV‐II, HIV, STLV‐III, and SRV‐I not increased in patients with multiple sclerosis	2004-10-08		.txt	text/plain	853	50	52	title: Antibody to human and simian retrovirus, HTLV‐I, HTLV‐II, HIV, STLV‐III, and SRV‐I not increased in patients with multiple sclerosis We have tested sera from patients with multiple sclerosis, matched controls, and those with other neurological diseases, as well as sera from patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and controls and patients with tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) and controls for antibody to human T‐lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV‐I), HTLV‐II, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), simian T‐lymphotropic virus type III, or simian retrovirus type I by immunofluorescent activity test, and for HTLV‐I and HIV by the ELISA method. Sera from patients with multiple sclerosis and matched controls, and from patients with optic neuritis and Parkinson's or other neuromuscular diseases did not have antibody to any of the retroviruses tested. None of the HTLV-I ELISA readings on samples from AIDS patients or controls or from MS patients, patients with optic neuritis, contro1s, and patients with other neurological diseases were above the cutoff of 0.36.	./cache/cord-328271-ma3s7hrs.txt	./txt/cord-328271-ma3s7hrs.txt