Comparison of two commercially available pp65 antigenemia tests and COBAS amplicor CMV monitor for early detection and quantification of episodes of human CMV-viremia in transplant recipients

Intervirology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 261-265

  May, Günter ^a   Kühn, Joachim E ^a   Eing, Bodo R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antigenemia; CINA kit; CMV Brite kit; Diagnosis; DNAemia; pp65; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECIPIENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIREMIA;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS; VIREMIA;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5;

EID: 33747279744     PISSN: 03005526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093455     Document Type: Article

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