Utility of Semiquantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction for Epstein‐Barr Virus to Measure Virus Load in Pediatric Organ Transplant Recipients with and without Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disease
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- 15 July 2001
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 33 (2) , 145-150
- https://doi.org/10.1086/321806
Abstract
We examined the utility of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) load as a test for the presence of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD). A semiquantKeywords
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