Diagnostic yield of the cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigenemia assay and clinical features in solid organ transplant recipients and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients with CMV pneumonia

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 192-197

  Moon, S M ^a,b   Sung, H ^a   Kim, M N ^a   Lee, S O ^a   Choi, S H ^a   Kim, Y S ^a   Woo, J H ^a   Kim, S H ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Antigenemia assay; Cytomegalovirus; Diagnostic yield; Hematopoietic stem cell transplant; Pneumonia; Solid organ transplant

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIGENEMIA ASSAY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84862805413     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2011.00703.x     Document Type: Article

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