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ArticleClinical & translational immunology2015

Adoptive T-cell immunotherapy for ganciclovir-resistant CMV disease after lung transplantation.

Chien-Li Holmes-Liew, Mark Holmes, Leone Beagley, Peter Hopkins, Daniel Chambers, Corey Smith, Rajiv Khanna

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Article in Clinical & translational immunology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
19.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 154 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. New Treatment Options for Refractory/Resistant CMV Infection.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Chien-Li Holmes-LiewSouth Australian Lung Transplant Unit, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital , Adelaide, South Australia, Australia ; Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide , Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Mark HolmesSouth Australian Lung Transplant Unit, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital , Adelaide, South Australia, Australia ; Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide , Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Leone BeagleyQIMR Centre for Immunotherapy and Vaccine Development, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Peter HopkinsQueensland Lung Transplant Service, The Prince Charles Hospital , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ; School of medicine, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Daniel ChambersQueensland Lung Transplant Service, The Prince Charles Hospital , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ; School of medicine, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Corey SmithQIMR Centre for Immunotherapy and Vaccine Development, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Rajiv KhannaQIMR Centre for Immunotherapy and Vaccine Development, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Infectious Disease Research Institute · USInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research · BD

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infections with cytomegalovirus (CMV) can induce severe complications after solid organ transplantation (SOT). The prognosis for ganciclovir-resistant CMV infection and disease is particularly poor. Whereas adoptive transfer of CMV-specific T cells has emerged as a powerful tool in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients, its translation into the SOT setting remains a significant challenge as underlying immunosuppression inhibits the virus-specific T-cell response in vivo. Here, we demonstrate successful expansion and adoptive transfer of autologous CMV-specific T cells from a seronegative recipient of a seropositive lung allograft with ganciclovir-resistant CMV disease, resulting in the long-term reconstitution of protective anti-viral immunity, CMV infection, disease-free survival and no allograft rejection.

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PMID25859390
PMCPMC4386617
OpenAlexW1972018312

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