Frequent Detection of Viral Nucleic Acids in Heart Valve Tissue

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2298-2300

  Mantke, Oliver Donoso ^a   Meyer, Rudolf ^b   Prösch, Susanna ^c   Niedrig, Matthias ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS DNA;

ADENOVIRUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROVIRUS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEART VALVE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; ORGAN DONOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPROSTHESIS; CHILD; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VIRUS DISEASES;

ADENOVIRIDAE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; ENTEROVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5; INFLUENZA VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 2442526624     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.5.2298-2300.2004     Document Type: Article

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