When polymerase chain reaction does not help: Cytomegalovirus pneumonitis associated with very low or undetectable viral load in both blood and bronchoalveolar lavage samples after lung transplantation

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 284-287

  Coussement, Julien ^a   Steensels, D ^b   Nollevaux, M C ^a   Bogaerts, P ^a   Dumonceaux, M ^a   Delaere, B ^a   Froidure, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Lung transplantation; Nucleic acid amplification testing; Pneumonitis; Polymerase chain reaction; Viral load

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS PNEUMONITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION SYSTEM; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INCLUSION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; VIROLOGY;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84962768896     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tid.12515     Document Type: Article

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