Polymerase chain reaction-based detection of Tropheryma whippelii in central nervous system whipple's disease

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 120-124

  Lynch, T ^a,f   Odel, J ^a   Fredericks, D N ^d,e   Louis, E D ^a,b   Forman, S ^c   Rotterdam, H ^a   Fahn, S ^a   Relman, D A ^d,e  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DUODENUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; MYOCLONUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SEIZURE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DUODENUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0030837407     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410420120     Document Type: Article

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