Immunologic control for polyomavirus infection after kidney transplantation

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Ahn, Hyung Joon ^a   Ju, Man Ki ^a   Jeong, Hyeon Joo ^a   Kim, Myoung Soo ^a   Kim, Hyon Suk ^a   Huh, Kyu Ha ^a   Lee, Jong Hoon ^a,b   Kim, Soon Il ^a   Kim, Yu Seun ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Kwandong University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Polymerase chain reaction; Polyomavirus infection; Urine decoy cell

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA, VIRAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 40449138717     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000115327     Document Type: Article

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