Failure of ganciclovir treatment associated with selection of a ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus strain in a lung transplant recipient

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1533-1536

  Alain, Sophie ^a   Honderlick, Patrick ^b   Grenet, Dominique ^b   Stern, Marc ^b   Vadam, Christophe ^a   Sanson Le Pors, Marie José ^a   Mazeron, Marie Christine ^a  

^a HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^b FOCH HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VIRUS ENZYME;

ADULT; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS; SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIRUS CULTURE;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 0030976426     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199705270-00031     Document Type: Article

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