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Use of letermovir‐valganciclovir combination as a step‐down treatment after foscarnet for ganciclovir‐resistant CMV infection in kidney transplant recipients
BACKGROUND: Letermovir (LTV) might be an alternative treatment to nephrotoxic foscarnet (FOS) in Ganciclovir (GCV) resistant cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. However, its efficacy in controlling active CMV viremia is unclear, as it is only approved for CMV prophylaxis in hematopoietic stem‐cell tran...
Autores principales: | Rho, Elena, Näf, Bettina, Müller, Thomas F, Wüthrich, Rudolf P, Schachter, Thomas, von Moos, Seraina |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9285377/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34181768 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ctr.14401 |
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