Viral diagnosis of neurological infection by RT multiplex PCR: A search for entero- and herpesviruses in a prospective study

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-151

  Casas, I ^a   Pozo, F ^a   Trallero, G ^a   Echevarria J M ^a   Tenorio, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Diagnosis; Enterovirus; Herpesvirus; Multiplex PCR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MYELORADICULOPATHY; POLYRADICULITIS; RETINITIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; DNA, VIRAL; ENTEROVIRUS; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; ENTEROVIRUS; HERPES; HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0032917812     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199902)57:2<145::AID-JMV10>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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