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Quantitation of cytomegalovirus: methodologic aspects and clinical applications Boeckh M; Boivin GClin Microbiol Rev 1998[Jul]; 11 (3): 533-54Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is an important pathogen in transplant recipients and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals. Major progress has been made in developing quantitative detection methods for CMV in recent years. Due to their high sensitivity, these assays can detect CMV early, and quantitation may be useful in predicting the patient's risk for disease and in monitoring the effect of antiviral therapy. This review discusses methodological aspects of currently used quantitative assays for CMV (i.e., viral culture techniques, antigen detection assays, DNA detection assays including PCR, branched-DNA assay, and the DNA hybrid capture assay) and addresses the correlation of systemic and site-specific CMV load and CMV disease in different populations of immunosuppressed patients as well as the response to antiviral treatment. To date, direct antigen detection and molecular techniques have largely replaced traditional culture-based techniques for CMV quantitation. In general, a high systemic CMV load is correlated with CMV disease. This correlation is strong in the HIV-infected population and in solid-organ transplant recipients but less clear in allogeneic marrow transplant recipients. Measuring the viral load at specific anatomic sites may be an alternative way to assess disease activity in situations where the systemic viral load correlates poorly with disease activity. A reduction of the systemic CMV load also correlates with a response to antiviral treatment, but more research is needed to evaluate the role of viral load as a surrogate marker for drug resistance. Due to the widespread use of quantitative CMV detection techniques to direct and monitor antiviral treatment, there is a great need for an assessment of the reproducibility of test results and better standardization of the assays.|AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/virology[MESH]|Antigens, Viral/blood[MESH]|Bone Marrow Transplantation/adverse effects[MESH]|Central Nervous System/virology[MESH]|Cytomegalovirus Infections/diagnosis/drug therapy/immunology/*virology[MESH]|Cytomegalovirus/drug effects/growth & development/immunology/*isolation & purification[MESH]|DNA, Viral/blood[MESH]|Drug Resistance, Microbial[MESH]|Eye/virology[MESH]|Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation/adverse effects[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Immunocompromised Host/immunology[MESH]|Lung/virology[MESH]|Organ Transplantation/adverse effects[MESH]|Phosphoproteins/blood[MESH]|Polymerase Chain Reaction[MESH]|Sensitivity and Specificity[MESH]|Viral Load[MESH]|Viral Matrix Proteins/blood[MESH]|Viral Plaque Assay[MESH]|Viremia/blood/virology[MESH] |
