Herpes viral infection and the multiple sclerosis prodrome: is HHV-6A infection a second hit?

Bruce A C Cree

doi:10.1093/brain/awad418

Herpes viral infection and the multiple sclerosis prodrome: is HHV-6A infection a second hit?

Brain. 2024 Jan 4;147(1):7-9. doi: 10.1093/brain/awad418.

Author

Bruce A C Cree¹

Affiliation

¹ UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University of California SanFrancisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.

Abstract

This scientific commentary refers to ‘Human herpesvirus 6A and axonal injury before the clinical onset of multiple sclerosis’ by Grut et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awad374).

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Axons
Herpesvirus 6, Human*
Humans
Multiple Sclerosis* / complications
Multiple Sclerosis* / virology
Virus Diseases*