Multiple-year experience in the diagnosis of viral central nervous system infections with a panel of polymerase chain reaction assays for detection of 11 viruses

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 630-635

  Huang, Cinnia ^a   Morse, Dale ^b   Slater, Brett ^a   Anand, Madhu ^b   Tobin, Ellis ^c   Smith, Perry ^b   Dupuis, Michelle ^a   Hull, Rene ^a   Ferrera, Rocco ^a   Rosen, Blair ^a   Grady, Leo ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENTEROVIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 20844462073     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422650     Document Type: Review

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