Incidence of epstein-barr virus in astronaut saliva during spaceflight

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1211-1213

  Payne, Deborah A ^a   Mehta, Satish K ^b   Tyring, Stephen K ^a   Stowe, Raymond P ^a   Pierson, Duane L ^c,d  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c Enterprise Advisory Services Inc   (United States)

^d NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Herpesvirus 4; Human stress spaceflight

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SPACE FLIGHT; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS SHEDDING;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NASA PROGRAM BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND COUNTERMEASURES;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASTRONAUTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STRESS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; VIRUS ACTIVATION; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 0032694461     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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