Assessment of the utility of viral culture of cerebrospinal fluid

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1578-1579

  Polage, Christopher R ^a,b   Petti, Cathy A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ARUP LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

EID: 33845402224     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509581     Document Type: Article

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