Lack of microbial DNA in tissue specimens of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms and positive Chlamydiales serology

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 141-145

  Falkensammer, B ^a   Duftner, C ^b   Seiler, R ^a   Pavlic, M ^a   Walder, G ^a   Wilflingseder, D ^a   Stoiber, H ^a   Klein Weigel, P ^a   Dierich, M ^a   Fraedrich, G ^a   Wurzner R ^a   Schirmer, M ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIACEAE INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE;

EID: 33846829444     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-006-0245-5     Document Type: Article

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