Sequential measurement of human herpesvirus 6 DNA with polymerase chain reaction method in pediatric living-related liver transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 208-213

  Hasegawa, Toshimichi ^a   Kimura, Takuya ^a   Sasaki, Takashi ^a   Okada, Akira ^a   Tanaka Taya, Keiko ^a   Miyagawa, Hiromi ^a   Amou, Kiyoko ^a   Mushiake, Sohtarou ^a   Yamanishi, Koichi ^a   Ishikawa, Shirou ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Kinan General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exanthem subitum; Human herpesvirus 6; Pediatric living related liver transplantation; Polymerase chain reaction; Tacrolimus

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; GANCICLOVIR; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS DNA;

AGE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; EXANTHEMA SUBITUM; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PEDIATRICS; PETECHIA; PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RECIPIENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0035015735     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2001.150310.x     Document Type: Article

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