Enterovirus, cytomegalovirus, and Epstein-Barr virus infection screening in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss

Audiology and Neurotology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 179-182

  Gross, Menachem ^a,b   Wolf, Dana G ^a   Elidan, Josef ^a   Eliashar, Ron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Polymerase chain reaction; Sudden sensorineural hearing loss; Viral infection, hearing loss

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOM; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 34147110304     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: 14219700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099021     Document Type: Article

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