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HHV‐6 DNA throughout the tissues of two stem cell transplant patients with chromosomally integrated HHV‐6 and fatal CMV pneumonitis
17 Feb 2009
Abstract excerpt
Two patients with the characteristic high human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) DNA loads in peripheral blood caused by chromosomally integrated (CI) virus received a haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) from a donor without CI HHV-6. Both patients died in consequence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis. At autopsy, high amounts of CMV DNA were detected in lungs but at much lower levels in other organs. In contrast...
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