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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Infect Dis. 2009 Mar 15;199(6):881–888. doi: 10.1086/597117

Table 3.

PCR detection of JCV DNA in archival bone marrow samples from HIV+ and HIV- patients

HIV+ HIV-

Indication for BM no. positive/ total no. tested p
Anemia 2/6 1/8 ns
Splenomegaly 1/1 0/1 ns
Polycythemia 0/2 0/2 ns
Thrombocytopenia 0/1
MGUS 0/2 0/2 ns
Leukopenia 1/1 0/5 ns
Pancytopenia 5/8 1/7 ns
Lymphoma 10/20 1/22 0.001
Total 19/41 (46%) 3/47 (6%) <0.01

BM, bone marrow biopsy; MGUS, monoclonal gammapathy of unknown significance; ns, not significant; p value indicate significance using Fischer’s Exact Test, two tailed.