Look and Ye Shall Find . . . Cytomegalovirus Infection in Immunocompetent Patients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1607-1608

  Arend, Sandra M ^a,b   Kroes, Aloys C M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b C5P 39 ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE;

EID: 0346218073     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379720     Document Type: Editorial

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