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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2019 Oct;24(5):527–534. doi: 10.1097/MOT.0000000000000682

Table 3:

Recipient Monitoring for Viral Infection Post-Xenotransplantation (adapted from 4)

Virus Name – non-commercial testing Testing Method
Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus (PERV) A, B, C, AC Qualitative and Quantitative (QNAT) Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT); Antibody-based tests (serology, ELISA, Western Blot)
Porcine Lymphotropic Herpesvirus Type 2 (PLHV-2) QNAT
Porcine Cytomegalovirus (PCMV) NAT; Antibody-based tests
Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) – per protocol QNAT
Human Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) – per protocol QNAT