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Urine and blood specimens from 32 recipients of allograft organ transplant were investigated for human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) by conventional cell culture, indirect immunofluo.rescent assay subsequent to the rapid cell culture and DNA-DNA hybridization. The results showed that the rapid cell culture technique might be the best method for rapid detection of active HCMV infection after transplantation because it possesses the advantages of simplicity, speediness, sensitiveness, and high reliability of detecting productive HCMV infection. The major symptoms were prolonged or intermittent fever unresponsive to antibiotics, dysfunction or loss of function of the transplanted organ, pulmonary infiltrates and leukopenia. As our results suggested, reactivation of a latent infection appears to be the most probable etiologic factor contributing to HCMV infection after transplantation.
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Yan-ping, D., Xiu-zhu, C., Xin, Z. et al. Laboratory and clinical diagnosis of human cytomegalovirus infection after transplantation. Journal of Tongji Medical University 10, 104–110 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02887871
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02887871