Quantitative real time PCR detection of Varicella-zoster virus DNA in cerebrospinal fluid in patients with neurological disease

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 194, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 7-12

  Aberle, Stephan W ^a   Aberle, Judith H ^a   Steininger, Christoph ^a   Puchhammer Stöckl, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; PCR; Quantitative; Real time; Varicella zoster virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; HERPES ZOSTER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ACTIVATION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 21644452106     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: 14321831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-003-0202-1     Document Type: Article

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