Application of a standardized cytomegalovirus antigenemia assay in the management of patients with AIDS

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 75-79

  Lipson, Steven M ^a,b   Match, Mark E ^a,b   Toro, Ana I ^b   Kaplan, Mark H ^a,b   Shepp, David H ^a,b  

^a Jane Dayton Brown Dayton T Brown J ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT, VIRAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; MALE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

EID: 0031788710     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(98)00070-4     Document Type: Article

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