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Laboratory diagnosis of cytomegalovirus infection and disease in immunocompromised patients.
Current opinion in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2007
Drew W Lawrence
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review new developments in PCR technology as they apply to detecting cytomegalovirus viremia and pneumonia, recent advances in detecting CMV resistance to antivirals and assays of specific CMV lymphocyte function. RECENT FINDINGS: This review summarizes the attempts to use real time PCR for cytomegalovirus deoxyribonucleic acidemia and to compare it to conventional PCR and antigenemia, it...
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