Cytomegalovirus disease in immunocompetent adults

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 201, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 578-580

  Lancini, Daniel ^a   Faddy, Helen M ^b   Flower, Robert ^b   Hogan, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GANCICLOVIR; MESALAZINE; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIARRHEA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OCCULT BLOOD TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VERY ELDERLY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE;

EID: 84925548277     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja14.00183     Document Type: Article

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