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Coxsackievirus B3 sequences in the blood of a neonate with congenital myocarditis, plus serological evidence of maternal infection
2 Jun 2003
Abstract excerpt
A fatal case of myocarditis in a neonate is described. The clinical features were evident at birth, and enteroviral RNA was detected in the blood of the baby on the day of birth and again 10 days later by a generic enterovirus nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay. The enterovirus RNA was subsequently retested by a separate, newly developed nested RT-PCR assay yielding a PCR...
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