Detection of human herpesviruses in the cerebrospinal fluid from patients diagnosed with or suspected of having progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

BACKGROUND: Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a fatal demyelinating disease caused by JC virus (JCV), occurs mainly in immunocompromised patients. While JCV DNA is detected in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from a certain proportion of patients suspected of having PML, JCV-negative pa...

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Autores principales: Nakamichi, Kazuo, Inoue, Naoki, Shimokawa, Toshio, Kurane, Ichiro, Lim, Chang-Kweng, Saijo, Masayuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24330281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-13-200

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