| Literature DB >> 20810778 |
Heidrun Kerschner1, Peter Jaksch, Barbara Zweytick, Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl.
Abstract
Whether bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid may be contaminated with oropharyngeal cytomegalovirus (CMV) has never been investigated. In an analysis of CMV DNA loads in 76 simultaneously obtained BAL fluid and throat wash samples from lung transplant recipients, we show that such contamination is unlikely and that detection of CMV DNA in BAL fluid reflects virus replication in the lung.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20810778 PMCID: PMC3020805 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01197-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948