Abstract
Cytomegaloviremia was documented in seven patients. Three patients were renal transplant recipients and two were liver transplant recipients. One was a postcardiac surgery patient, and one had acute myelogenous leukemia. The transplant patients had received only banked blood or fresh frozen plasma and developed evidence of infection about 1 month after surgery. Illness varied from no apparent signs to fever alone, fever and a morbilliform rash, hepatitis and an infectious mononucleosis syndrome. The virus was isolated from the blood erythrocyte layer, the leukocyte layer, and the plasma and serum, in that order of frequency. In vitro studies demonstrated persistence of inoculated cytomegalovirus in the presence of erythrocytes (and tissue culture media) for up to 21 days. In whole blood under banking conditions, inoculated virus was recovered after 28 days and, in fresh frozen plasma, after 97 days.
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