CMV PCR as a diagnostic tool for CMV gastrointestinal disease after solid organ transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 799-801

  Grim, Shellee A ^a   Pereira, Edwin ^b   Guzman, Grace ^a   Clark, Nina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COLONIC DISEASES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DUODENAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; JEJUNAL DISEASES; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH DISEASES;

EID: 77958018979     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181eceac9     Document Type: Letter

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