A quantitative test (HCMV-hybrid-capture™) to detect human cytomegalovirus DNA in the blood of immunocompromised patients compared with antigenemia and polymerase chain reaction

New Microbiologica

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 193-202

  Lazzarotto, T ^a   Campisi, B ^a   Dal Monte, P ^a   Galli, S ^a   Spezzacatena, P ^a   Guglielmi, P ^a   Landini, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antigenemia; Cytomegalovirus; Herpesviruses; Hybrid capture; PCR

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOMEGALIC INCLUSION BODY DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RNA PROBE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RNA PROBES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 0030183498     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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