JC virus (JVC) genotypes in brain tissue from patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) and in urine from controls without PML: Increased frequency of JCV type 2 in PML

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-8

  Agostini, Hansjürgen T ^b   Ryschkewitsch, Caroline F ^b   Mory, Rachel ^b   Singer, Elyse J ^b   Stoner, Gerald L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; JC VIRUS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; SCHOOL CHILD; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; URINARY EXCRETION; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGED; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIROLOGY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CHILD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIV-1; HUMANS; JC VIRUS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0030612465     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514010     Document Type: Article

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