Ljungan virus present in intrauterine fetal death diagnosed by both immunohistochemistry and PCR

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 227-229

  Samsioe, Annika ^a   Papadogiannakis, Nikos ^b   Hultman, Thomas ^c   Sjöholm, Åke ^a   Klitz, William ^d,e   Niklasson, Bo ^c,f  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Apodemus AB   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; IUFD; Ljungan virus; PCR; Picorna virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LJUNGAN VIRUS; MALE; PICORNAVIRUS; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE SECTION; TRISOMY 21; VIRUS DETECTION;

BRAIN; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MALE; PARECHOVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SPLEEN; TRISOMY;

ANIMALIA; LJUNGAN VIRUS; PICORNAVIRIDAE;

EID: 62949134831     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20554     Document Type: Article

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