Failure to detect Chlamydia pneumoniae in calcific and degenerative arteriosclerotic aortic valves excised during open heart surgery

APMIS

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 717-720

  Andreasen, Jan Jesper ^a   Farholt, Stense ^b   Jensen, Jørgen Skov ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arotic valves; Atherosclerosis; Chlamydia pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CALCIFICATION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEGENERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; OPEN HEART SURGERY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031878008     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1998.tb00217.x     Document Type: Article

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