Would kinetic analyses of plasma cytomegalovirus DNA load help to reach consensus criteria for triggering the initiation of preemptive antiviral therapy in transplant recipients?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1533-1535

  Vinuesa, Víctor ^a   Giménez, Estela ^a   Solano, Carlos ^a,c   Gimeno, Concepción ^b   Navarro, David ^a,c  

^a Hospital Clínico Universitario   (Venezuela)

^b Microbiology Service   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; VIRUS DNA; DNA; GANCICLOVIR;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS LOAD; CONSENSUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CONSENSUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA; DNA, VIRAL; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 85014935901     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw608     Document Type: Letter

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