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Table 4 Time to until detection of active CMV infection by pp65 antigenemia, nested-PCR and real-time PCR

From: Surveillance of active human cytomegalovirus infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HLA sibling identical donor): search for optimal cutoff value by real-time PCR

 

N° Patients

Median (days after HSCT)

Range

Patients with active CMV infection

27 (90%)

33

0 - 119

Positive pp65 antigenemia (%)

13 (43.3%)

40

29 - 152

Positive nested-PCR (%)

21 (70%)

33

0 - 126

Positive real-time PCR (%)

23 (76.7%)

40

0 - 119

  1. CMV, human cytomegalovirus.