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Cytomegalovirus ventriculoencephalitis in a peripheral blood stem cell transplant recipient.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Feb 2006
Miller Geraldine G, Boivin Guy, Dummer J Stephen, McConnell Thomas, Becher Mark W, Kassim Adetola, Tang Yi-Wei
Abstract excerpt
Cytomegalovirus encephalitis occurs rarely in transplant recipients. We describe a patient with cytomegalovirus ventriculoencephalitis who had a very high CSF viral load but a low peripheral blood viral load. No resistance mutations were present in cerebrospinal fluid viral DNA, whereas DNA from blood showed a resistance mutation in the UL54 gene but not in the UL97 gene. Viral replication was intense in the...
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