BKV QPCR detection and infection monitoring in renal transplant recipients

New Microbiologica

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 271-274

  Mischitelli, Monica ^a   Fioriti, Daniela ^a   Anzivino, Elena ^a   Bellizzi, Anna ^a   Ferretti, Giancarlo ^a   Gussman, Norberto ^a   Mitterhofer, Anna Paola ^b   Tinti, Francesca ^b   Barile, Mario ^b   Dal Maso, Maurizio ^c   Chiarini, Fernanda ^a   Pietropaolo, Valeria ^a,b  

^a Department of Public Health Sciences ^*

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

BKV; BKVAN; QPCR; Viremia; Viruria

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BK VIRUS; BLOOD; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; URINE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BK VIRUS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL LOAD;

BK POLYOMAVIRUS;

EID: 34547956630     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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