Herpesviruses oral shedding and viremia in renal transplant recipients: A longitudinal study.
Dmitry José De Santana SarmentoTânia Regina Tozetto-MendozaAna Carolina Mamana Fernandes de SouzaRafael MacielHeuder PaiaoSilvia Helena LimaMarina Pontello CristelliJosé Osmar Medina de Abreu PestanaPaulo Henrique Braz-SilvaMarina GallottiniPublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2020)
We concluded that the pattern of excretion of HSV-1 and EBV in saliva is changed immediately after renal transplantation, increasing in the 15- to 20-day period after the transplant surgery. No concordance between herpesviruses oral shedding and viremia was observed.