| Literature DB >> 9823528 |
S M Lipson1, M E Match, A I Toro, M H Kaplan, D H Shepp.
Abstract
One-hundred twenty AIDS patients, tested by an optimized cytomegalovirus antigenemia (CMV-Ag) assay, were followed over a 6-month period in an attempt to correlate viral (CMV) load with severe CMV organ-specific disease. Among patients available for follow-up, CMV organ-specific disease was present in seven of eight (88%) with pp65 antigen levels > or = 50 cells per 4 x 10(5) polymorphonuclear leukocytes. One-hundred six patients of 107 patients with levels < 50 pp65 reactive cells did not develop CMV organ-specific disease within our 6-month follow-up period. The CMV-Ag assay, as standardized in our clinical setting, served as a marker and predictor of CMV organ-specific disease in our AIDS patient population.Entities:
Mesh：
Substances：
Year: 1998 PMID： 9823528 DOI： 10.1016/s0732-8893(98)00070-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis ISSN： 0732-8893 Impact factor: 2.803