Ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus disease after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: Pitfalls of phenotypic diagnosis by in vitro selection of an UL97 mutant strain

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 139-143

  Hamprecht, Klaus ^a   Eckle, Tobias ^a   Prix, Lothar ^a   Faul, Christoph ^a   Einsele, Hermann ^a   Jahn, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETINITIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; FEMALE; GANCICLOVIR; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VIRAL LOAD; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0037221341     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/346240     Document Type: Article

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