TABLE 4.

Prevalence of C. pneumoniae in monosymptomatic MS patients

Patient	Age (yr)	Gender	CSF characteristics			Initial eventa	IgG indexb	OCc bands	Brain MRI resultsd	Cervical cord MRI results	PCR assay results
											VUMCe		USF with MOMP primerf
			Cell count (no. of cells/μl)	Protein concn (mg/dl)	Glucose concn (mg/dl)						VU-MOMP	Tong and Sillis
1	27	M	21	59	53	SC	0.55	−	Normal	Single T2 lesion	+	−	−
2	32	M	10	38	58	SC	1.23	−	Normal	Two T2 lesions	+	+	+
3	42	M	3	86	70	SC	0.51	−	Normal	Enhancing Lesion	−	−	−
4	27	F	0	13	51	ON	0.46	−	Normal	Normal	+	−	+
5	38	F	1	24	64	BS	0.5	−	Two T2 PV lesions	Normal	−	−	−
6	45	F	0	23	50	SC	0.99	+	Normal	Enhancing Lesion	+	+	+
7	52	M	7	Unknown	71	ON	0.61	−	Three PV lesions	NDg	−	−	−
8	34	F	1	50	55	ON	0.6	−	Multiple PV lesions	ND	−	−	+
9	39	F	1	43	60	BS	0.39	−	Multiple PV lesions	ND	−	+	ND
10	33	F	1	56	57	BS	0.45	+	Multiple PV lesions	Normal	−	−	−
11	31	F	9	49	62	ON	1.41	+	Single enhancing lesions	Single T2 lesion	+	+	+
12	28	F	2	32	54	ON	0.74	+	Normal	Single T2 lesion	−	−	+
13	57	F	1	15	53	SC	ND	+	Brian Normal	ND	−	ND	ND
14	47	F	2	52	52	BS	ND	+	Single T2 lesion Pons	ND	−	ND	ND
15	42	F	21	26	65	SC	ND	−	NSWM abnormal	ND	−	ND	ND
16	41	F	1	21	65	BS	ND	+	3 NSWM lesions	ND	+	ND	ND
17	25	F	0	27	59	BS	ND	+	4 NSWM lesions	ND	+	ND	ND

^aAbbreviation for locations of initial events: SC, spinal cord; ON, optic nerve; BS, brain stem.

^bIgG, immunoglobulin G.

^cOC, oligoclonal.

^dPV, periventricular; NSWM, nonspecific white matter.

^eThe total numbers of samples positive were 7 and 4 with the VU-MOMP and Tong and Sillis primers, respectively.

^fThe total number of samples positive was 2.

^gND, not done.