Correspondence to: Joo Sung Kim Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea Tel: +82-2-740-8112, Fax: +82-2-743-6701, E-mail: [email protected] pISSN 1976-2283 eISSN 2005-1212 http://dx.doi.org/10.5009/gnl14501 Reply: We thank Dr. Ozturk and colleagues for their letter regarding our article, “Long-term outcomes o...

BACKGROUND New rapid diagnostic techniques offer the opportunity of early diagnosis of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in immunocompromised patients at risk of developing CMV disease. The use of human CMV antigenaemia as a predictor of clinical CMV infection and disease in lung and heart transplant recipients was studied prospectively. METHODS Twenty three heart and nine lung transplant...

CD8+ cytotoxic T cells play a key role in immunological protection from clinical cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease. Numbers of CMV-specific CD8+ T cells are increased in untreated and antiretroviral-treated HIV patients compared with healthy controls. Accumulation of CMV-specific CD8+ T cells during HIV infection may reflect persistent reactivation of CMV owing to suboptimal immune control and/or o...

We assessed the value of the cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigenemia assay for diagnosing primary CMV infection in adults. The CMV antigenemia assay was performed for 40 patients admitted to our unit over a 2-year period with unexplained fever and suspected primary CMV infection. Nine of the 10 patients with primary CMV infection had positive CMV antigenemia assays, and the results were available wit...

Cytomegalovirus is the most important pathogen affecting transplant recipients and causing significant morbidity and morbidity. The prevalence of CMV  infections in transplant recipient varies from country to country.  The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic value of PCR assay for CMV  detection in patients before Keratoplasty.  A total of 23 patient samples en...

BACKGROUND We aimed to identify the risk factors associated with colonic cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in ulcerative colitis (UC) and to compare the clinical course between antiviral therapy-treated and -untreated groups in mucosal CMV-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -positive cases. METHODS We retrospectively selected 46 UC patients (>15 years old) in active phase who underwent colonoscopy...

Biber (Capsicum annuum L.)’de çok sayıda virüs enfeksiyona neden olmakta ve önemli ürün kayıplarına yol açmaktadır. Bu çalışma kapsamında, 2018 yılında Türkiye biber üretiminin büyük bir bölümünün gerçekleştirildiği Antalya, Manisa, Çanakkale, Samsun Bursa illerinde yetiştirilen alanlardan virüs-benzeri simptom sergileyen 616 adet örneği toplanmıştır. örnekler daha sonra Alfalfa mosaic virus (A...

OBJECTIVE Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are a risk factor for diabetic complications. We have developed an assay method for N-(carboxymethyl)valine (CMV) of the hemoglobin (CMV-Hb), which is an AGE generated from HbA1c. Herein we describe the clinical utility of CMV-Hb measurement for the diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS BALB/c mice were immunized with ca...

A high incidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections is observed in Brazil. These viruses are causatives of significant morbidity and mortality among patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. This work, shows the application of a PCR on determination of CMV load in the buffy coat and plasma. We analyzed the samples of 247 HIV infected patients in order to diagnose CMV...