Expression of the late cytomegalovirus (CMV) pp150 transcript in leukocytes of AIDS patients is associated with a high viral DNA load in leukocytes and presence of CMV DNA in plasma

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1101-1107

  Boivin, Guy ^a,b   Handfield, Julie ^a,b   Toma, Emil ^a,b   Lalonde, Richard ^a,b   Bergeron, Michel G ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL LOAD; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS; VIREMIA;

EID: 0033008563     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314721     Document Type: Article

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