Detection of parvovirus B19 and human herpesvirus 6 in pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy: Impact after heart transplantation

• Main Authors: Bibhuti B Das (Author), Bhupesh K Prusty (Author), Jianli Niu (Author), Meei-Li Huang (Author), Haiying Zhu (Author), Eva Eliassen (Author), Jane M Kuypers (Author), Keith R Jerome (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate HHV-6 and PVB19 infection using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and immunofluorescent assay (IFA) in the myocardium of pediatric patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and the impact of viral persistence in the cardiac allograft after heart transp...