Cytomegalovirus viremia and clinical outcomes in Kenyan children diagnosed with HIV in hospital.
Dalton WamalwaIrene NjugunaElizabeth Maleche-ObimboEmily BegnelDaisy J ChebetJudith A OnyangoLisa Marie CranmerMeei-Li HuangBarbra A RichardsonMichael BoeckhGrace C John-StewartJennifer SlykerPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
In this nested observational study, CMV viremia was common in hospitalized children with HIV, and levels ≥1000 IU/mL were associated with increased risk of mortality and longer hospitalization.