Viral communities associated with human pericardial fluids in idiopathic pericarditis.

Pericarditis is a common human disease defined by inflammation of the pericardium. Currently, 40% to 85% of pericarditis cases have no identified etiology. Most of these cases are thought to be caused by an infection of undetected, unsuspected or unknown viruses. In this work, we used a culture- and...

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Main Authors: Laura Fancello, Sonia Monteil, Nikolay Popgeorgiev, Romain Rivet, Frédérique Gouriet, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Didier Raoult, Christelle Desnues
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3972187?pdf=render