Value of the polymerase chain reaction in the diagnosis of herpes infections of the nervous system;Utilidad de la reacción en cadena de la polimerasa en el diagnóstico de las infecciones herpéticas del sistema nervioso

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 150-155

  Garcia Bardeci, Diana ^a   Pena, María José ^a   Suárez Bordón, Pino ^a   Aladro, Yolanda ^a   Pérez González, Carmen ^a   Lafarga, Bernardo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Herpesvirus; Meningitis; PCR

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENCEPHALITIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROPATHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

EID: 2142696690     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13058023     Document Type: Article

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