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Risk of infectious diseases among first-degree relatives of transplant recipients who develop CMV infection: is the infectious phenotype inheritable?
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 Dec 2017
Ekenberg C, Lodding I P, Wareham N E, Sørensen S S, Sengeløv H, Gustafsson F, Rasmussen A, Perch M, Lundgren J D, Helleberg M
Abstract excerpt
Transplant recipients are at high risk of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. Mechanisms explaining the variation in risk of infections are far from fully elucidated. We hypothesised that host genetics explains part of the variation in risk of infection and examined if relatives of recipients with CMV infection have higher rates of severe infections compared to relatives of recipients without this infectious...
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