Acute cytomegalovirus infection and transient carotid intimal-medial thickening in a young, otherwise healthy woman

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3978-3980

  Hirabayashi, Yasuhiko ^a   Ishii, Tomonori ^a   Kodera, Takao ^a   Fujii, Hiroshi ^a   Munakata, Yasuhiko ^a   Sasaki, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR LESION; VASCULITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; POMACANTHUS MACULOSUS;

EID: 0042022026     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.8.3978-3980.2003     Document Type: Article

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