Table of Contents:
  • Scrapie: pathogenesis in inbred mice: an assessment of host control and response involving many strains of agent / A.G. Dickinson & H. Fraser
  • Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and transmissible presenile dementias / D. Carleton Gajdusek & Clarence J. Gibbs
  • Sheep progressive pneumonia viruses / Donald H. Harter
  • Borna, the disease- a summary of our present knowledge / H. Ludwig & H. Becht
  • Borna disease: patterns of infection / Kurt Danner
  • Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy / Richard T. Johnson, Opendra Narayan, Leslie P. Weiner, & John E. Greenlee
  • Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis / Michael Katz
  • A concept of virus-induced demyelinating encephalomyelitis relative to an animal model / A. Koestner & S. Krakowka
  • The biologic role of host-dependent proteolytic cleavage of a paramyxovirus glycoprotein / Purnell W. Choppin & Andreas Scheid
  • Multiple sclerosis: a case for viral etiology / V. ter Meulen.
  • In search of the abominable snowman or "deine Viren, meine Viren" in multiple sclerosis / Hilary Koprowski
  • Characterization of the virus antibody activity of oligoclonal IgG produced in the central nervous system of patients with myltiple sclerosis / Erling Norrby
  • Demyelination in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis / Ellsworth C. Alvord
  • Genetic aspects of multiple sclerosis / Ernst K. Kuwert & Hans J. Bertrams
  • Cell-mediated immunity in multiple sclerosis / Casper Jersild
  • Critique: the virologist / Ludvik Prevec
  • Temperature-sensitive viruses: possible role in chronic and inapparent infections / Julius S. Younger
  • The geneticist / A.D. Bloom
  • Critique: afterthoughts of an immunologist / Eberhard Wecker
  • Critique: the epidemiologist / Brian MacMahon
  • Conclusions: outlook on future research / C.A. Mims.