Detection and Monitoring of Human Herpesvirus 7 in Adult Liver Transplant Patients: Impact on Clinical Course and Association With Cytomegalovirus

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1537-1539

  Thomasini, R L ^a   Sampaio, A M ^a   Bonon, S H A ^a   Boin, I F S ^a   Leonardi, L S ^a   Leonardi, M ^a   Costa, S C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 7; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 7, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 34250190901     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.12.037     Document Type: Article

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