Comparison of two quantitative CMV PCR tests, Cobas Amplicor CMV Monitor and TaqMan assay, and pp65-antigenemia assay in the determination of viral loads from peripheral blood of organ transplant patients

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 258-266

  Piiparinen, H ^a   Hockerstedt K ^a   Gronhagen Riska C ^a   Lautenschlager, I ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

CMV; Diagnosis; Real time PCR; Transplant patients

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; GANCICLOVIR; ISOPROTEIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY GRAFT; LEUKOCYTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIRUS LOAD;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TAQ POLYMERASE; VIRAL LOAD; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS;

EID: 2442430384     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2003.12.010     Document Type: Article

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