Evaluation of the Digene Hybrid Capture System for detection and quantitation of human cytomegalovirus viremia in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2959-2962

  Mazzulli, Tony ^a,b,c,e   Wood, Serena ^c   Chua, Robert ^c   Walmsley, Sharon ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYBRID; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIREMIA;

CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0029860440     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.12.2959-2962.1996     Document Type: Article

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