Cytomegalovirus infection in central european vitiligo patients?

Autoimmunity

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 121-122

  Pichler, Robert ^a   Sfetsos, Konstantin ^a   Auböck, Josef ^a   Badics, Birgit ^a   Gutenbrunner, Sabrina ^a   Berg, Jörg ^a  

^a KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; AUSTRIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS DETECTION; VITILIGO;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; EUROPE; VITILIGO;

EID: 21044445348     PISSN: 08916934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08916930500050368     Document Type: Letter

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