Use of polymerase chain reaction to provide prognostic information on human cytomegalovirus disease after liver transplantation

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 152-158

  Lao, W C ^a   Lee, D ^a   Burroughs, A K ^a   Lanzini, G ^a   Rolles, K ^a   Emery, V C ^a   Griffiths, P D ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antiviral therapy; ganciclovir; glycoprotein b

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS;

ACYCLOVIR; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BLOOD; CAUSE OF DEATH; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; URINE;

CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5;

EID: 0031007134     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199703)51:3<152::AID-JMV3>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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