Monitoring of polyomavirus BK virus viruria and viremia in renal allograft recipients by use of a quantitative real-time PCR assay: One-year prospective study

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3568-3573

  Pang, Xiaoli L ^a,b   Doucette, Karen ^b   LeBlanc, Barbara ^a   Cockfield, Sandra M ^b   Preiksaitis, Jutta K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BK VIRUS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECIPIENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS; VIREMIA; VIRURIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

BK VIRUS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; URINE; VIRAL LOAD; VIREMIA;

BK POLYOMAVIRUS;

EID: 36348980569     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00655-07     Document Type: Article

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