Treatment with ganciclovir of adenovirus pneumonia in a cardiac transplant patient

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 439-440

  Duggan, Joan M ^a   Farrehi, Janice ^a   Duderstadt, Susan ^a   Turner, Nancy J ^a   Fekety, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

EID: 0030699378     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(97)85997-9     Document Type: Article

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