The use of qualitative and quantitative polymerase chain reactions for diagnosis of cytomegalovirus infections in bone marrow and kidney transplant recipients

• Main Authors: Lauro Juliano Marin, Aldo Albuquerque Cunha, Victor Hugo Aquino, Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2004
• Subjects: CMV infection; Qualitative PCR; Quantitative PCR; Bone marrow transplant; Kidney transplant; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; The Gib
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/320122a2ffc743258a8389015cf1d74f

The purpose of this work was to test a cytomegalovirus qualitative PCR and a semi-quantitative PCR on the determination of CMV load in leukocytes of bone marrow and kidney transplanted (RT) patients. Thirty three BMT and 35 RT patients participated of the study. The DNA was subjected to a qualitativ...