Immune Monitoring for CMV in Transplantation

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Yong, Michelle K ^a,b   Lewin, Sharon R ^a   Manuel, Oriol ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMV specific immunity; Cytomegalovirus; ELISPOT; Immune monitoring; Quantiferon CMV; Solid organ transplantation; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHEMICAL BINDING; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MONITORING; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 85043976438     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-018-0610-4     Document Type: Review

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