PCR Search for the Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Genome in Brain Sections of Patients with Familial Alzheimer's Disease [1]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 936-937

  Mori, Isamu ^a   Yokochi, Takashi ^a   Koide, Naoki ^a   Sugiyama, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yoshida, Tomoaki ^a   Kimura, Yoshinobu ^b   Naiki, Hironobu ^b   Matsubara, Rokuro ^b   Takeuchi, Tohru ^c   Nishiyama, Yukihiro ^c  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b University of Fukui   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN D; PRESENILIN 1; VIRUS DNA;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

DNA VIRUSES; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 10744232893     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.2.936-937.2004     Document Type: Letter

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