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Clinical next-generation sequencing assay combining full-length gene amplification and shotgun sequencing for the detection of CMV drug resistance mutations.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Aug 2023
von Bredow Benjamin, Caldera J R, Cerón Stacey, Chan June L, Gray Hannah K, Garner Omai B, Yang Shangxin
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) causes severe systemic and tissue-invasive disease in immunocompromised patients, particularly solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. While antiviral drugs offer promising efficacy, clinical management is complicated by the high frequency of drug resistance-associated mutations. The most commonly encountered mutations occur in the genes encoding for the drug targets:...
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