Patterns of viremia in liver transplant recipients with symptomatic cytomegalovirus infection

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 68-73

  Mutimer, David ^a   Matyi Toth, Anna ^b   Shaw, Jean ^a   Elias, Elwyn ^a   O'Donnell, Katharina ^a   Stalhandske, Per ^b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b AB Sangtec Medical   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIREMIA; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TITRATION;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIREMIA; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0031023609     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199701150-00013     Document Type: Article

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