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Cytomegalovirus antibodies in dried blood spots: a minimally invasive method for assessing stress, immune function, and aging

BACKGROUND: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a prevalent herpesvirus with links to both stress and aging. This paper describes and validates a minimally invasive method for assessing antibodies against CMV in finger stick whole blood spot samples for use as an indirect marker of an aspect of cell-mediated i...

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Autores principales: Dowd, Jennifer B, Aiello, Allison E, Chyu, Laura, Huang, Yuan-yen, McDade, Thomas W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21232134
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4933-8-3