PCR detected hepatitis C virus genome in the brain of a case with progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 305-308

  Bolay, Hayrunnisa ^a,b   Söylemezoǧlu, Figen ^a   Nurlu, Gülay ^a   Tuncer, Serdar ^a   Varli, Kubilay ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C virus (HCV); Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity (PEWR)

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; GENOME; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MUSCLE SPASM; PANCREATITIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIGIDITY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPHINCTER;

EID: 0030297021     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-8467(96)00040-6     Document Type: Article

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