Pre-emptive antiviral therapy for active CMV infection in adult allo-SCT patients guided by plasma CMV DNAemia quantitation using a real-time PCR assay: clinical experience at a single center

• Published in: Bone marrow transplantation (Basingstoke) Vol. 48; no. 7; pp. 1010 - 1012
• Main Authors: Solano, C, Muñoz-Cobo, B, Giménez, E, Remigia, M J, Amat, P, Clari, M A, Bravo, D, Benet, I, Montoro, J, Navarro, D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01-07-2013; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/250/1904; 692/699/255/2514; 692/700/565; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Allografts; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Antiviral agents; Biological and medical sciences; Bone marrow; Bone marrow, stem cells transplantation. Graft versus host reaction; Cell Biology; Cytomegalovirus; Cytomegalovirus infections; Cytomegalovirus Infections - blood; Cytomegalovirus Infections - therapy; DNA, Viral - blood; Drug therapy; Female; Health aspects; Hematologic Neoplasms - blood; Hematologic Neoplasms - therapy; Hematologic Neoplasms - virology; Hematology; Humans; Infectious diseases; Internal Medicine; letter-to-the-editor; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Monitoring, Physiologic - methods; Public Health; Quantitation; Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; Retrospective Studies; Risk factors; Stem Cell Transplantation; Stem Cells; Transfusions. Complications. Transfusion reactions. Cell and gene therapy; Transplantation; Viral diseases; Spain; Human; Cytomegalovirus; Hematology; Herpesviridae; Stem cell; Hematopoietic cell; Homograft; Real time; Betaherpesvirinae; Blood plasma; Infection; Virus; Guidance; Prevention; Polymerase chain reaction; Treatment; Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Viral disease; Graft; Adult; Antiviral; Molecular biology
• ISSN: 0268-3369; 1476-5365
• DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2012.286