Cytomegalovirus DNA load monitoring in stool specimens for anticipating the occurrence of intestinal acute graft-versus-host disease following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Is it of any value?
Felipe BuenoEliseo AlbertEstela GiménezJosé Luis PiñanaAriadna PérezMaría Dolores GómezJuan Carlos Hernández-BoludaEva María Gonzalez-BarberáJuan MontoroManuel GuerreiroAitana Balaguer-RosellóRafael HernaniJaime SanzCarlos SolanoDavide NavarroPublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2020)
Our study failed to provide evidence pointing to a reciprocal interaction between GI CMV infection and IaGvHD. CMV DNA monitoring in stools seems of no value to anticipate occurrence of IaGvHD.