Cytomegalovirus infection is a common pathogen which rarely cause symptomatic disease in an immunocompetent patient. We present an immocompetent 55 year old male with complaints of pain abdomen and loss of appetite. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and radiologic features were suggestive of malignancy and partial gastrectomy was performed. Histopathologic findings were diagnostic of cytomegalov...

In pediatric patients, Ménétrier's disease is an uncommon clinical entity that has been rarely described only as sporadic cases, and the etiology is unclear. These patients usually have a self-limiting clinical course. Cytomegalovirus is an important pathogen in the immunocompromised host. However, cytomegalovirus infection can be detected in non-immunocompromised children. We discuss the possi...

Human trophoblast cells were permissively infected by human cytomegalovirus. The kinetics of viral immediate-early, early, and late gene expression was clearly delayed compared to that in fibroblasts. Productive infection was unequivocally proven by the detection of virion particles, infectious virus in trophoblast culture supernatant, and cell-to-cell spread of cytomegalovirus from infected tr...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to simultaneously monitoring cytomegalovirus and human herpesvirus 6 active infections using nested-polymerase chain reaction and, together with clinical findings, follow the clinical status of patients undergoing liver transplant. INTRODUCTION The human β-herpesviruses, including cytomegalovirus and human herpesvirus 6, are ubiquitous among human populatio...

Viruses have evolved various strategies to prevent premature apoptosis of infected host cells. Some of the viral genes mediating antiapoptotic functions have been identified by their homology to cellular genes, but others are structurally unrelated to genes of known function. In this study, we used a random, unbiased approach to identify such genes in the murine cytomegalovirus genome. From a l...

BACKGROUND The aim of this meta-analysis was to assess the efficacy of antiviral agents to prevent, in solid organ transplant recipients, cytomegalovirus infection and symptomatic disease and to decrease the incidence of acute rejection, graft loss, and death. METHODS Of the studies identified, 13 met the following inclusion criteria: prospective randomized study, in adults or pediatric recip...

Recent advances in microRNA target identification have greatly increased the number of putative targets of viral microRNAs. However, it is still unclear whether all targets identified are biologically relevant. Here, we use a combined approach of RISC immunoprecipitation and focused siRNA screening to identify targets of HCMV encoded human cytomegalovirus that play an important role in the biol...

BACKGROUND Neonatal cholestasis syndrome with an intra or extrahepatic origin has been associated to viral infections. The participation of the cytomegalovirus in the etiopathogenesis of neonatal hepatitis has been already known for some time, but only recently there have been indications that this virus may be one of the possible etiological factors for extrahepatic biliary atresia. AIMS To ...

BACKGROUND Cytomegalovirus reactivation occurs within 6 months in 60-70% of cytomegalovirus-seropositive patients after allogeneic haemopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT), mainly due to immunosuppression associated with the procedure. Pre-emptive antiviral therapy reduces incidence of cytomegalovirus disease but can be toxic. To reduce the potential for disease and subsequent need for suc...

Murine cytomegalovirus was inhibited by 0.6 to 1.2 mug of cytosine arabinoside per ml and by 0.3 to 0.6 mug of 5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine in mouse embryo fibroblast cells. Human cytomegalovirus was inhibited by similar concentrations of the two drugs in WI-38 cells. Intraperitoneal inoculation of suckling mice with 10(4.5) plaque-forming units of murine cytomegalovirus provides a model for dissemin...