Evaluation of the AMPLICOR cytomegalovirus test with specimens from human immunodeficiency virus-infected subjects

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2509-2513

  Boivin, Guy ^a,e   Handfield, Julie ^a   Toma, Emil ^b   Murray, Gilles ^a   Lalonde, Richard ^c   Tevere, Vincent J ^d   Sun, Rita ^d   Bergeron, Michel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d HOFFMANN LA ROCHE INC   (United States)

^e LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS DETECTION;

CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0031876865     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.9.2509-2513.1998     Document Type: Article

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