Diagnostic value of reverse transcription-PCR for detection of cytomegalovirus pp67 in samples from solid-organ transplant recipients

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3394-3396

  Meyer Koenig, Ursula ^a   Romberg, Ilona ^a   Schneider, Kerstin ^a   Weidmann, Manfred ^b   Kern, Winfried V ^a   Hufert, Frank T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN PP67; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PP65 ANTIGEN TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5;

EID: 33748803360     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00493-06     Document Type: Article

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