Cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA amplification from plasma compared with CMV pp65 antigen (ppUL83) detection in leukocytes for early diagnosis of symptomatic CMV infection in kidney transplant patients

Clinical and Diagnostic Virology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 99-110

  Wirgart, Benita Zweygberg ^a   Claesson, Kerstin ^b   Eriksson, Britt Marie ^b   Brundin, Marianne ^a   Tufveson, Gunnar ^b   Tötterman, Thomas ^b   Grillner, Lena ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CMV DNA; CMV pp65 antigen; kidney transplant; plasma; polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CHILD; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS; VIREMIA;

EID: 0030294968     PISSN: 09280197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-0197(96)00258-9     Document Type: Article

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