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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is best known as an opportunistic pathogen in the context of a suppressed immune system; this includes patients with AIDS and other immunodeficiency disorders, solid organ and bone marrow transplant patients, those taking chronic immunosuppressive medications, and those with underlying malignancies. CMV is the most common gastrointestinal pathogen overall in patients with AIDS, and infection can develop anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus. Symptoms vary with the immune status of the patient and the site of infection; the most common clinical symptoms of gastrointestinal infection are diarrhea (either bloody or watery), abdominal pain, fever, and weight loss. Patients with esophageal infection often have dysphagia and odynophagia.
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Lamps, L.W. (2009). Cytomegalovirus. In: Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0861-2_20
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