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Does Detection of Respiratory Viral Infection in Upper Respiratory Tract (URT) Predict Lower Respiratory Tract (LRT) Disease in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant (HCT) Patients?

BACKGROUND: HCT recipients are frequently infected with respiratory viruses (RVs) in the URT; however, diagnostic evaluation of the LRT by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is less common. We sought to determine whether the detection of RVs in the URT is predictive of LRT detection and to identify factor...

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Autores principales: Vivek, Meghana, Xie, Hu, Pergam, Steven A, Mielcarek, Marco, Hill, Joshua, Kuypers, Jane, Jerome, Keith, Limaye, Ajit, Leisenring, Wendy, Boeckh, Michael, Waghmare, Alpana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5632032/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx162.023