T-helper cell responses in liver transplant recipients: Correlation with cytomegalovirus and other major infections

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 93-96

  Singh, Nina ^a,b   Gayowski, T ^a   Wagener, M M ^a   Zeevi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Infections; Liver transplant; T helper cell; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MEMORY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEROPREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS CULTURE;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 9144236905     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2004.00056.x     Document Type: Article

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