CMV Real-TM PCR Kit (CE)

Real Time Amplification test for detection of Cytomegalovirus

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Background

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a double-stranded DNA virus and is a member of the Herpesviridae family. CMV shares many attributes with other herpes viruses, including genome, virion structure, and the ability to cause latent and persistent infections. Human CMV grows only in human cells and replicates best in human fi broblasts. About 58.9% of individuals aged 6 and over are infected with CMV while 90.8% of individuals aged 80 and over are positive for CMV antibodies. Symptomatic CMV disease in immunocompromised individuals can affect almost every organ of the body, resulting in fever of unknown origin, pneumonia, hepatitis, encephalitis, myelitis, colitis, uveitis, retinitis, and neuropathy. In patients coinfected with HIV, CMV infection leads to progression to AIDS and eventually death, even in those receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).