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Improved detection of emerging drug-resistant mutant cytomegalovirus subpopulations by deep sequencing.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Aug 2014
Chou Sunwen, Ercolani Ronald J, Sahoo Malaya K, Lefterova Martina I, Strasfeld Lynne M, Pinsky Benjamin A
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In immunosuppressed hosts, the development of multidrug resistance complicates the treatment of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. Improved genotypic detection of impending drug resistance may follow from recent technical advances. A severely T-cell-depleted patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia developed CMV pneumonia and high plasma viral loads that were poorly responsive to antiviral therapy. Serial plasma...
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