Coxsackievirus B3 sequence in the myocardium of fatal cases in a cluster of acute myocarditis in Greece

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 357-360

  Spanakis, N ^a   Manolis, E N ^b   Tsakris, A ^a   Tsiodras, S ^c   Panagiotopoulos, T ^c   Saroglou, G ^c   Legakis, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Hellenic Centre for Infectious Diseases Control   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COXSACKIE VIRUS B3; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROVIRUS; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GREECE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE SECTION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HEART; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MYOCARDITIS; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; GREECE; HEART; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS;

EID: 17144425015     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2004.020099     Document Type: Article

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