Dayan AD, Majumdar S, Hughes W, Heathfield KW. An unusual intranuclear structure (? viral nucleocapsid) in the brain in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1974;
37:201-6. [PMID:
4594797 PMCID:
PMC494612 DOI:
10.1136/jnnp.37.2.201]
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Abstract
A brain biopsy was examined from a 7 year old boy with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Intranuclear deposits of measles antigens were demonstrated in parenchymal cells by immunofluorescence. Electron microscopy showed viral nucleocapsids in nucleoliform inclusions and unusual rod-like intranuclear structures which resemble structures previously described only in tissue cultures infected with measles virus.
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