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• Reactivation of viruses in solid organ transplant patients receiving cytomegalovirus prophylaxis.

  A series of substudies of a large international cytomegalovirus (CMV) prophylaxis trial investigated the incidence and clinical relevance of reactivat…

  Authors: Atul Humar

  Source: Transplantation. 2006 Jul 27

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• Respiratory viral infections in transplant and oncology patients.

  Respiratory viral infections are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the immunocompromised host. In the last two decades, there has been…

  Authors: Deepali Kumar, Atul Humar

  Source: Infectious disease clinics of North America. 2010 Jun

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• Cytomegalovirus resistance in solid organ transplant recipients treated with intravenous ganciclovir or oral valganciclovir.

  BACKGROUND: The rate of cytomegalovirus (CMV) mutations conferring ganciclovir resistance was assessed in a trial comparing intravenous ganciclovir an…

  Authors: Guy Boivin, Nathalie Goyette, Halvor Rollag, Alan G Jardine, Mark D Pescovitz, Anders Asberg, Jane Ives, Anders Hartmann, Atul Humar

  Source: Antiviral therapy. 2009

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• Concurrent genotyping and quantitation of cytomegalovirus gB genotypes in solid-organ-transplant recipients by use of a real-time PCR assay.

  We have developed a real-time genotyping and quantitative PCR (RT-GQ-PCR) assay to genotype cytomegalovirus (CMV) and quantify viral loads simultaneou…

  Authors: Xiaoli Pang, Atul Humar, Jutta K Preiksaitis

  Source: Journal of clinical microbiology. 2008 Dec

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• International consensus guidelines on the management of cytomegalovirus in solid organ transplantation.

  Cytomegalovirus (CMV) remains one of the most common infections after solid organ transplantation, resulting in significant morbidity, graft loss, and…

  Authors: Camille N Kotton, Deepali Kumar, Angela M Caliendo, Anders Asberg, Sunwen Chou, David R Snydman, Upton Allen, Atul Humar, Transplantation Society International CMV Consensus Group

  Source: Transplantation. 2010 Apr 15

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• A prospective molecular surveillance study evaluating the clinical impact of community-acquired respiratory viruses in lung transplant recipients.

  BACKGROUND: Community-acquired respiratory viral infections (RVIs) are common in lung transplant patients and may be associated with acute rejection a…

  Authors: Deepali Kumar, Shahid Husain, Maggie Hong Chen, George Moussa, David Himsworth, Oriol Manuel, Sean Studer, Diana Pakstis, Kenneth McCurry, Karen Doucette,…

  Source: Transplantation. 2010 Apr 27

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• Lack of association between beta-herpesvirus infection and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in lung transplant recipients in the era of antiviral prophylaxis.

  BACKGROUND: Cytomegalovirus (CMV), human herpesvirus-6 and -7 (HHV-6 and -7) are beta-herpesviruses that commonly reactivate and have been proposed to…

  Authors: Oriol Manuel, Deepali Kumar, George Moussa, Maggie H Chen, Joseph Pilewski, Kenneth R McCurry, Sean M Studer, Maria Crespo, Shahid Husain, Atul Humar

  Source: Transplantation. 2009 Mar 15

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• A randomized trial of ganciclovir versus ganciclovir plus immune globulin for prophylaxis against Epstein-Barr virus related posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder.

  BACKGROUND: Transplant recipients who are Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-seronegative and receive organs from seropositive donors (EBV D+/R-) are at increas…

  Authors: Atul Humar, Diane Hébert, H Dele Davies, Abhinav Humar, Derek Stephens, Brenda O'Doherty, Upton Allen

  Source: Transplantation. 2006 Mar 27

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• Graphium basitruncatum fungemia in a patient with acute leukemia.

  We report the first case of infection caused by Graphium basitruncatum in a man with acute leukemia who developed persistent fungemia and skin lesions…

  Authors: Deepali Kumar, Lynne Sigler, Connie Fe C Gibas, Subhash Mohan, Andre Schuh, Bruno C Medeiros, Kenneth Peckham, Atul Humar

  Source: Journal of clinical microbiology. 2007 May

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• A prospective assessment of cytomegalovirus immune evasion gene transcription profiles in transplant patients with cytomegalovirus infection.

  BACKGROUND: The cytomegalovirus (CMV) immune evasion genes US3, US6, and US11 may disrupt the host immune response via downregulation of major histoco…

  Authors: Atul Humar, Deepali Kumar, Michael Gray, George Moussa, Srividhya Venkataraman, Raahul Kumar, Graham A Tipples

  Source: Transplantation. 2007 May 15

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