Extensive infectious panel testing for acute pericarditis: A ghost hunt?

Cardiology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 131-133

  Lazaros, George ^a   Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADENOVIRUS; CHLAMYDIA; COXIELLA BURNETII; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FOLLOW UP; HAEMOPHILUS; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LEGIONELLA; LEPTOSPIRA; MUMPS VIRUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RUBELLA VIRUS; SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX PAIN; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDITIS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 80054768873     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000331575     Document Type: Note

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