Assessment of Cytomegalovirus-Specific Cell-Mediated Immunity for the Prediction of Cytomegalovirus Disease in High-Risk Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Cohort Study
Manuel, Oriol ; Husain, Shahid ; Kumar, Deepali ; Zayas, Carlos ; Mawhorter, Steve ; Levi, Marilyn E. ; Kalpoe, Jayant ; Lisboa, Luiz ; Ely, Leticia ; Kaul, Daniel R. ; Schwartz, Brian S. ; Morris, Michele I. ; Ison, Michael G. ; Yen-Lieberman, Belinda ; Sebastian, Anthony ; Assi, Maha ; Humar, Atul
In: Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2013, vol. 56, no. 6, p. 817-824
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- In high-risk solid-organ transplant recipients receiving antiviral prophylaxis, the measurement of specific cell-mediated immunity using the Quantiferon assay appropriately stratified the individual risk of developing subsequent cytomegalovirus disease