Enteroviral RNA replication in the myocardium of patients with left ventricular dysfunction and clinically suspected myocarditis

Circulation

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 889-895

  Pauschinger, Matthias ^a   Doerner, Andrea ^a   Kuehl, Uwe ^a   Schwimmbeck, Peter L ^a   Poller, Wolfgang ^a   Kandolf, Reinhard ^b   Schultheiss, Heinz Peter ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Molecular biology; Myocarditis; Polymerase chain reaction; RNA; Viruses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTEROVIRUS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0033596659     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.99.7.889     Document Type: Article

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