Simultaneous treatment of cytomegalovirus and varicella zoster infections in a renal transplant recipient with ganciclovir: Use of viral load to monitor response to treatment

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 412-414

  Aitken, C ^a   Hawrami, K ^a   Miller, C ^b   Muir, W Barrett ^a   Yaqoob, M ^a   Breuer, J ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHEND HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MONITORING; RECIPIENT; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIREMIA; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; GANCICLOVIR; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; VIRAL LOAD;

CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; MUREX; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0032849991     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199911)59:3<412::AID-JMV23>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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