Lower incidence of CMV infection and acute rejections with valganciclovir prophylaxis in lung transplant recipients

BACKGROUND: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common opportunistic infection following lung transplantation. CMV replication in the lung allograft is described as accelerating the development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). Finding a strategy to prevent CMV infection is an important issu...

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Autores principales: Johansson, Inger, Mårtensson, Gunnar, Nyström, Ulla, Nasic, Salmir, Andersson, Rune
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24325216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-582

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24325216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-582

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