Successful treatment of congenital cytomegalovirus infection with valganciclovir

No To Hattatsu

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-59

  Ishida, Yu ^a   Miyajima, Tasuku ^a   Shimura, Masaru ^a   Morichi, Shinichiro ^a   Morishima, Yasuyuki ^a   Ioi, Hiroaki ^a   Oana, Shingo ^a   Yamanaka, Gaku ^a   Kawashima, Hisashi ^a   Hoshika, Akinori ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VALGANCICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; UMBILICAL CORD; URINALYSIS;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856147694     PISSN: 00290831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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