METHOD OF TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF MULTIDATED SCLEROSIS BY TREATING LEPTOSPIRAL INFECTION

摘要

The present invention relates to new therapeutic and prophylactic methods for multiple sclerosis. It also provides new diagnostic methods. The present invention relates to the discovery that, most likely, multiple sclerosis is caused by chronic infection with a microorganism that crossreacts immunologically with the spirochete Leptospira interrogans, which usually infects a gray rat.