Identification of Burkholderia in the Temporal Arteries and Blood of Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis

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Identifier 20110208_nanos_sciplatform_12
Title Identification of Burkholderia in the Temporal Arteries and Blood of Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis
Creator Bradley Katz; Curry Koening; Bhupendra Patel; Chang-Hee Kim; Kathleen Digre; Judith Warner; Jerry Kaplan; Ivana DeDomenico; Neuro-Ophthalmology GCA Consortium
Affiliation University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Subject Giant Cell Arteritis; Temporal Arteritis; Burkholderia; PCR; Immunohistochemistry
Description Previous investigators have postulated that an infectious agent causes giant cell arteritis (GCA). Attempts to culture an organism have been unsuccessful. Non-human DNA has been identified in tissue samples, but a causative organism has never been positively identified.
Date 2011-02-08
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Format Creation application/pdf
Type Text
Source 2011 North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting
Relation is Part of NANOS 2011: Scientific Platform Presentations (Session II)
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Holding Institution North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Association. NANOS Executive Office 5841 Cedar Lake Road, Suite 204, Minneapolis, MN 55416
Rights Management Copyright 2011. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s6wm4kxf
Context URL The NANOS Annual Meeting Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/NAM/toc/
Setname ehsl_novel_nam
ID 181810
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wm4kxf
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