TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantification of adenovirus in the lower respiratory tract of patients without clinical adenovirus-related respiratory disease
AU - Leung, Anskar Yu Hung
AU - Chan, Maggie
AU - Cheng, Vincent Chi Chung
AU - Yuen, Kwok Yung
AU - Kwong, Yok Lam
PY - 2005/5/15
Y1 - 2005/5/15
N2 - Adenovirus in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples from 50 patients without adenovirus-related illness was quantified. In 49 patients, adenovirus was found (median load, 3.3 × 103 copies/μg of DNA). The adenovirus load was inversely related to lymphocyte count (Pearson correlation coefficient r = -0.311; P = .03) and was significantly greater in immunosuppressed patients than in immunocompetent patients (5.1 × 103 vs. 2.0 × 103 copies/μg of DNA; P = .028).
AB - Adenovirus in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples from 50 patients without adenovirus-related illness was quantified. In 49 patients, adenovirus was found (median load, 3.3 × 103 copies/μg of DNA). The adenovirus load was inversely related to lymphocyte count (Pearson correlation coefficient r = -0.311; P = .03) and was significantly greater in immunosuppressed patients than in immunocompetent patients (5.1 × 103 vs. 2.0 × 103 copies/μg of DNA; P = .028).
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U2 - 10.1086/429627
DO - 10.1086/429627
M3 - Article
C2 - 15844080
AN - SCOPUS:18244380562
SN - 1058-4838
VL - 40
SP - 1541
EP - 1544
JO - Clinical Infectious Diseases
JF - Clinical Infectious Diseases
IS - 10
ER -