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Failure of ganciclovir treatment associated with selection of a ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus strain in a lung transplant recipient.
Transplantation - 27 May 1997
Alain S, Honderlick P, Grenet D, Stern M, Vadam C, Sanson-Le Pors M J, Mazeron M C
Abstract excerpt
We report the case of a lung transplant recipient with progressive cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease due to a resistant CMV strain emerging under ganciclovir (GCV) therapy. A discriminative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay, designed to detect the resistance-related V460 mutation within the viral enzyme UL97, revealed the presence of a mutated strain in a heterogeneous isolate 51 days after transplantation. The...
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