Failure to detect chlamydia pneumoniae in aortic valves and peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients undergoing aortic valve replacement in Norway

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 660-663

  Vainio, kirsti ^a   Vengen, Øystein ^a   Hoel, Terje ^a   Fremstad, Hege ^a   Ånestad, Gabriel ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NORWAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0036385088     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540210147796     Document Type: Article

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