Dr. Wallace Rowe 
Page 3 
May 15, 1979 
Here are some references which support the viewpoints I have expressed above: 
McNeill, W.H., Plagues and People. Doubleday, New York, 1976. 
Paterson, P.Y., Experimental allergic encephalomyelittis and 
autoimmune disease. Adv. in Immunol. 5 : 131-208, 1966. 
Paterson, P.Y., Autoimmune neurologic disease: experimental 
animal systems and implications for multiple sclerosis. In: Autoimmunity. 
Genetic, Immunologic, Virologic and Clinical Aspects ( Talal, N., ed ), 
Academic Press, New York, 1977, pp. 643-692. 
Springer, G., Blood-group and Forssman antigenic determinants shared 
between microbes and mammalian cells. Prog, in Allergy 15 : 9-77, 1971. 
Zabriski, J.B., Mimetic relationships between Group A streptococci and 
mammalian tissues. Adv. Immunol. 7 : 147 - 188,1967. 
Trusting that these comments will prove helpful to you and the Recombinant 
DNA Advisory Committee, I am. 
Sincerely, 
Philip Y. Paterson, M. D. 
Chairman and Professor 
I PYP/mvm 
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