Clinical application of viral cerebrospinal fluid PCR testing for diagnosis of central nervous system disorders: A retrospective 11-year experience

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 207-215

  Kleines, Michael ^a   Scheithauer, Simone ^b   Schiefer, Johannes ^b   Häusler, Martin ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid analysis; Cytomegalovirus; Enteroviruses; Epstein Barr virus; Herpes simplex virus; Human herpesvirus type 6; Human immunodeficiency virus infection; PCR; Stroke; Virobiome

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFANT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VERY ELDERLY; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS REACTIVATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927521357     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2014.07.010     Document Type: Article

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