Quantitation of human cytomegalovirus dna from peripheral blood cells of human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients could predict cytomegalovirus retinitis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 177-182

  Rasmussen, Lucy ^a   Morris, Shannon ^a   Zipeto, Donato ^a   Fessel, Jeffrey ^a   Wolitz, Richard ^a   Dowling, Anna ^a   Merigan, Thomas C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; DNA, VIRAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028796408     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/171.1.177     Document Type: Article

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