Diagnosis and monitoring of human cytomegalovirus diseases in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection by use of a real-time PCR assay

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1756-1761

  Yoshida, A ^a   Hitomi, S ^a   Fukui, T ^b   Endo, H ^a   Morisawa, Y ^a   Kazuyama, Y ^b   Osumi, K ^b   Oka, S ^c   Kimura, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 0035889467     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323782     Document Type: Article

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