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Circulating Immediate-Early mRNA In Patients With Cytomegalovirus Infections After Solid Organ Transplantation
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Circulating Immediate-Early mRNA In Patients With Cytomegalovirus Infections After Solid Organ Transplantation

Parmjeet S. Randhawa, Rafael Manez, Bonnie Frye and Garth D. Ehrlich
The Journal of infectious diseases, v 170(5), pp 1264-1267
Nov 1994
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/170.5.1264
PMID: 7963723
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Abstract

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based amplification of cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA has been demonstrated to be.a sensitive tool for the diagnosis of CMV infection. However, PCR can detect the presence of viral DNA in some specimens from clinically asymptomatic patients. In an attempt to obviate this shortcoming, a reverse transcriptase-PCR-based assay (RT-PCR) was developed to look for CMV immediate-early (IE) mRNA in peripheral blood leukocytes from organ transplant recipients. The results of the PCR- and RT-PCR-based assays for CMV were correlated with clinical symptoms from 21 patients. Absence of circulating IE mRNA was associated with a lack of CMV-associated clinical symptoms in all 14 cases, irrespective of the presence or absence of CMV DNA. In contrast, all 7 RNA-positive samples were associated with CMV disease. Thus, RT-PCR appears to be more predictive than PCR for detection of clinically significant CMV disease in immunosuppressed patients.

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