Infection with Epstein Barr virus increases risk of multiple sclerosis

Katharine Barnes

doi:10.1038/s43856-022-00076-w

Infection with Epstein Barr virus increases risk of multiple sclerosis

Commun Med (Lond). 2022 Feb 7:2:13. doi: 10.1038/s43856-022-00076-w. eCollection 2022.

Author

Katharine Barnes¹

Affiliation

¹ Communications Medicine, https://www.nature.com/commsmed/.

Abstract

The causes of multiple sclerosis are unclear, but viral infection has been proposed as a possible trigger. A longitudinal analysis in a large cohort published in Science found that the risk of multiple sclerosis increased 32-fold following infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).