Human cytomegalovirus infections in nonimmunosuppressed critically ill patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 541-547

  Heininger, Alexandra ^a,d   Jahn, Gerhard ^b   Engel, Corinna ^b   Notheisen, Thomas ^c   Unertl, Klaus ^a   Hamprecht, Klaus ^b  

^a Inst für Anästhesiologie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Unfallklinik Tubingen   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active cytomegalovirus infection; Critical illness; Cytomegalovirus disease; Cytomegalovirus reactivation; Immunocompetence; Immunodepression; Polymerase chain reaction; Risk factor; Sepsis; Surgical intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 0035107631     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200103000-00012     Document Type: Article

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