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Table 1 Comparison of onset of CMV infection between patients with and without CMV disease

From: CMV infection of liver transplant recipients: comparison of antigenemia and molecular biology assays

 

ONSET OF CMV INFECTION (days)

 
 

WITHOUT

WITH CMV

 
 

CMV DISEASE

DISEASE

 
 

Mean

Min-max

Mean

Min-max

p a)

Antigenemia pp65 b)

35

20-69

28

17-35

n.s.

CMV monitor c)

51

32-70

29

23-35

<0.029

CMV pp67 mRNA

51d)

37-69d)

28

17-35

<0.026

  1. a) p = significance level for the difference between patients with and without disease, according to the Mann-Whitney U test; n.s.= not significant b) Antigenemia results are given as positive cells per 50,000 cells c) CMV monitor results are given as copies/mL d) Two patients without CMV disease were always negative by CMV pp67 mRNA. Thus onset of CMV infection by this assay only includes data for 3/5 patients without CMV disease.
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BMC Infectious Diseases

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