Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydia pneumoniae in calcified nodules of aortic stenotic valves

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 209-212

  Higuchi, Maria De Lourdes ^a   Higuchi Dos Santos, Marilia Harumi ^b   Pierri, Humberto ^b   Palomino, Sueli ^b   Sambiase, Nadia Vieira ^b   Ramires, José Antonio Franchini ^b   Wajngarten, Maurício ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aortic Valve; Atherosclerosis; Calcification; Chlamydia pneumoniae; Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PATHOLOGY;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0036651478     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652002000400005     Document Type: Article

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