Correlation of cytomegalovirus DNA levels with response to antiviral therapy in cardiac and renal allograft recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 957-963

  Toyoda, Mieko ^a,b   Carlos, Jose B ^a   Galera, Odette A ^a   Galfayan, Karine ^a   Zhang, Xiaoming ^a   Sun, Zhili ^a   Czer, Lawrence S C ^a   Jordan, Stanley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; GANCICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOASSAY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VIREMIA;

EID: 0030952993     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199704150-00009     Document Type: Article

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