Editorial response: Laboratory monitoring of cytomegalovirus disease- is polymerase chain reaction the answer?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 841-842

  Fischer, Steven H ^b   Masur, Henry ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CIDOFOVIR; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOMEGALIC INCLUSION BODY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; MONITORING; NOTE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031135961     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.5.841     Document Type: Article

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