Laboratory diagnosis of herpes zoster: Virology or serology?;Die labordiagnose des herpes zoster: Virologie oder serologie?

Medizinische Klinik

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 123-127

  Sauerbrei, Andreas ^a   Sommer, Monika ^b   Eichhorn, Ulrich ^a   Wutzler, Peter ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Katholisches Krankenhaus St Nepomuk   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antigen detection; Herpes zoster; Laboratory diagnosis; Polymerase chain reaction; Serology; Virus isolation

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CHILD; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, VIRAL; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3;

EID: 0037087481     PISSN: 07235003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00063-002-1135-y     Document Type: Article

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