Early effects of ganciclovir therapy on the quantity of cytomegalovirus DNA in leukocytes of immunocompromised patients

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 860-862

  Boivin, Guy ^a   Quirk, Mary R ^b   Kringstad, Barbara A ^b   Germain, Marc ^a   Jordan, M Colin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOCYTE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIREMIA;

EID: 0030933563     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.4.860     Document Type: Article

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