Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) leukoDNAemia correlates more closely with clinical symptoms than antigenemia and viremia in heart and heart-lung transplant recipients with primary HCMV infection

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1378-1385

  Gerna, Giuseppe ^a   Zavattoni, Maurizio ^a   Baldanti, Fausto ^a   Sarasini, Antonella ^a   Chezzi, Lucia ^a   Grossi, Paolo ^b   Revello, M Grazia ^a,b  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0032572004     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199805270-00016     Document Type: Article

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