Acyclovir triphosphate inhibits the diagnostic polymerase chain reaction for cytomegalovirus

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 238-242

  Yedidag, Emre N ^a,b   Koffron, Alan J ^a   Mueller, Kyle H ^a   Kaplan, Bruce ^a   Kaufman, Dixon B ^a   Fryer, Jonathan P ^a   Stuart, Frank P ^a   Asecassis, Michael ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ACICLOVIR TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA POLYMERASE; GANCICLOVIR; GUANOSINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME INHIBITION; INHIBITION KINETICS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INHIBITION;

ACTINS; ACYCLOVIR; ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; KINETICS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0029894755     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199607270-00015     Document Type: Article

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