Detection of viral and bacterial protein in endomyocardial biopsies of patients with inflammatory heart muscle disease?

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Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 233-239

  Davydova, Janna ^a   Pankuweit, Sabine ^b   Crombach, Marlies ^b   Eckhardt, Heike ^b   Strache, Daniela ^b   Faulhammer, Petra ^b   Maisch, Bernhard ^b,c  

^a I M SECHENOV FIRST MOSCOW STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydia pneumonia; Immunofluorescence assay; Influenza A; Viral protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFLAMMATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MALE; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0033936891     PISSN: 03409937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000590050012     Document Type: Article

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