Progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy
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Diagnosis of progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy by hybridisation techniques.
In situ hybridisation with acetyl-aminofluorene (AAF) and 35S-labelled DNA probes for polyomaviruses, was used to detect JC virus DNA in brain necropsy material in a patient with progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy (PML). In a second patient PML was diagnosed from a brain necropsy specimen using the same technique. The main infected cell type were oligodendrocytes; dot hybridisation was ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.28.3.260