Chlamydia in coronary plaques - Hidden culprit or harmless hobo?

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 856-857

  Capron, Loïc ^a  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY WALL; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 0029817692     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0896-856     Document Type: Review

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