Absence of detectable measles virus genome sequence in inflammatory bowel disease tissues and peripheral blood lymphocytes

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 243-249

  Afzal, M A ^a   Armitage, E ^b   Begley, J ^a   Bentley, M L ^a   Minor, P D ^a   Ghosh, S ^b   Ferguson, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Measles; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MEASLES VIRUS; PATHOGENESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

ADULT; AGED; COLONOSCOPY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINES; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MEASLES VIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS;

MEASLES VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0031813355     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199807)55:3<243::AID-JMV11>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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