Chlamydia pneumoniae in coronary bypass grafts of redo patients. The concepts of the 'adventitial baseline infection'

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 200, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 609-618

  Glasz, Tibor ^a   Hortoványi, Eszter ^a   Mózes, Géza ^a,e   Kiss, András ^a   Lotz, Gábor ^a   Kaposi Nagy, Pál ^a   Szik, Ágnes ^a   Kardos, Magdolna ^c   Sziller, István ^a   Nagy, Bálint ^a,f   Bán, Zoltán ^a   Tóth, András ^b   Kassai, Imre ^c,g   Horkay, Ferenc ^a,c   Dudás, Gábor ^d   Kádár, Anna ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c National Institute of Cardiology Budapest   (Hungary)

^d National Medical Center   (Hungary)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerosis; Bypass; Chlamydia pneumoniae; Coronary disease; Late graft failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; HUNGARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROENVIRONMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REOPERATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 4444356178     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

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