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In England and Wales there is a strong geographical relation between current mortality from chronic bronchitis and emphysema in adults and infant mortality from bronchitis and pneumonia 50 years ago. Follow-up studies of infants and children show that certain pulmonary infections cause persisting abnormalities of lung function. This suggests that infection of an organ system during a period of rapid growth may have permanent deleterious effects. Long-term consequences of infection may also depend on age-related differences in the host response. The relationship between age of infection with hepatitis B virus and the likelihood of becoming a chronic HBsAg carrier is an example of this. Evidence that the common communicable diseases of childhood tend to have occurred late in cases of multiple sclerosis hints at similar mechanisms in this disease. The current patterns of motor neuron disease mirror the epidemiology of poliovirus infection 40 years ago both in geographical distribution and in changes over time. The same neuronal populations are affected in both these conditions; is there a causal link?
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PMID:Childhood infection and adult disease. 185 18

We present here an assumption that hepatitis B virus (HBV) is involved in the pathogenesis of motor neuron disease (MND) in part, because of very high incidence of HBV antibody in patients with MND. In this study HBV antibodies were determined in 34 patients with MND (15 with ALS, 7 with SPMA, 8 with PBP and 4 with PBP+SPMA), and it was revealed that hepatitis B surface antigen (enzyme immunoassay: EIA) was negative in all the patients, whereas hepatitis B surface antibody (HBs-Ab) (EIA) was positive in 25 patients (73.5%) (9 with ALS, 6 with SPMA, 7 with PBP and 3 with PBP+SPMA). In contrast, HBs-Ab was positive only in 2 out of 28 patients with brain infarction (7.1%), and in 1 out of 16 patients with spinocerebellar degeneration (6.3%), both of which were used as control. Of 22 patients with indefinite complaints, none was positive for HBs-Ab. Thus, the number of HBs-Ab positive individuals was significantly (P < 0.001) greater in patients with MND than that in the patients having other disorders of central nervous system. From the above result, we conclude that MND may be partially ascribed to HBV.
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PMID:[Significance of hepatitis B virus antibody in motor neuron disease]. 761 57