title: Attempts to implicate viruses in myasthenia gravis.
abstract: We investigated the hypothesis that a persistent viral infection of the thymus gland might trigger the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis (MG). Thymus glands of nine patients with recent onset of MG were studied by a variety of techniques to detect the presence of occult viruses. No evidence of viral infection was found.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aoki
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Drachman
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Asher
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Gibbs
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bahmanyar
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Wolinsky
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D002648:Child; D004267:DNA Viruses; D005260:Female; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008828:Microbiological Techniques; D008875:Middle Aged; D009115:Muridae; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000382:microbiology*; D009522:Newcastle disease virus; D009924:Organ Culture Techniques; D017955:Poliovirus; D012328:RNA Viruses; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000382:microbiology*; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000382:microbiology