Functional impairment of cytomegalovirus specific CD8 T cells predicts high-level replication after renal transplantation.
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) remains an important cause of morbidity after allotransplantation, causing a range of direct effects including hepatitis, pneumonitis, enteritis and retinitis. A dominant risk factor for HCMV disease is high level viral replication in blood but it remains unexplained why...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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