Preemptive treatment for the prevention of cytomegalovirus disease: In lung and heart transplant recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 747-752

  Egan, Jim J ^a   Lomax, Joyce ^b   Barber, Lisa ^b   Lok, She S ^a   Martyszczuk, Ruth ^a   Yonan, Nizar ^a   Fox, Andrew ^b   Deiraniya, Abdul K ^a   Turner, Andrew J ^b   Woodcock, Ashley A ^a  

^a WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WITHINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG COST; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS CULTURE;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GANCICLOVIR; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032521302     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199803150-00026     Document Type: Article

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