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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, November 2000, p. 4274-4276, Vol. 38, No. 11
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Is Chlamydia pneumoniae Present in Brain Lesions of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis?

Chlamydia Research Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York¹; Department of Neurology, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania²; and Department of Virology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden³

Received 11 July 2000/Returned for modification 9 August 2000/Accepted 22 August 2000

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