Comparison of two methods used for monitoring low-copy cytomegalovirus infection in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia after unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 199-203

  Dzieciątkowski, Tomasz ^a   Przybylski, Maciej ^a   Tomaszewska, Agnieszka ^a,b   Rokicka, Małgorzata ^a   Łuczak, Mirosław ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chronic myeloid leukemia; Cytomegalovirus infection; Real time PCR; Umbilical cord blood transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; GANCICLOVIR; NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 34250719158     PISSN: 0004069X     EISSN: 16614917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00005-007-0019-5     Document Type: Article

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