Monitoring of porcine and baboon cytomegalovirus infection in xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 535-536

  Mueller, Nicolas J ^a   Ezzelarab, Mohamed ^b   Buhler, Leo ^c   Haeberli, Lea ^a   Ayares, David ^d   Cooper, David K C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d REVIVICOR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; DNA FRAGMENT; GANCICLOVIR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

AORTA GRAFT; BABOON; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BREEDING METHOD; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DONOR; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPH NODE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SALIVA GLAND TRANSPLANTATION; SALIVARY GLAND; SPLEEN TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; THYMUS TRANSPLANTATION; TONSIL TRANSPLANTATION; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; PAPIO; SWINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VIRUS ACTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 73449137583     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2009.00536.x     Document Type: Letter

References (8)

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