Role of PCR in the diagnosis and management of CMV in solid organ recipients: What is the predictive value for development of disease and should PCR be used to guide antiviral therapy?

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 800-801

  Abecassis, M M ^a   Koffron, A J ^a   Buckingham, M ^a   Kaufman, D B ^a   Fryer, J P ^a   Stuart, J ^a   Stuart, F P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; OKT 3; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MUROMONAB-CD3; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 0030911997     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-1345(96)00108-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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