Late-Onset Cytomegalovirus Disease as a Significant Complication in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients Receiving Antiviral Prophylaxis: A Call to Heed the Mounting Evidence
Open Access
- 1 March 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 40 (5) , 704-708
- https://doi.org/10.1086/427506
Abstract
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been recognized as one of the most important opportunistic pathogens in transplant recipients. Direct clinical syndromes due to CMV arKeywords
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