No evidence of involvement of Chlamydia pneumoniae in severe cerebrovascular atherosclerosis by means of quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction

Stroke

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2024-2028

  Apfalter, Petra ^a,b   Barousch, Wolfgang ^a   Nehr, Marion ^a   Willinger, Birgit ^a   Rotter, Manfred ^a   Hirschl, Alexander M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chlamydia pneumoniae; Polymerase chain reaction; Senile plaques; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL DNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SENILE PLAQUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE CULTURE;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

EID: 4344659322     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000137765.64705.d8     Document Type: Article

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