ArticleVirology journal2022
Detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) by digital PCR in stool samples for the non-invasive diagnosis of CMV gastroenteritis.
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- Antiviral Agents for Preventing Cytomegalovirus Disease in Recipients of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.Viruses · 2024Pooled it
- Diagnostic performance of noninvasive tests for cytomegalovirus ileocolitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Intestinal research · 2025Article
- Digital PCR in Virology: Current Applications and Future Perspectives.Molecular diagnosis & therapy · 2025Review
- Viral enteritis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: pathogens, clinical characteristics, and outcomes.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- [Refractory or resistant cytomegalovirus infections after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: diagnosis and management].Zhonghua xue ye xue za zhi = Zhonghua xueyexue zazhi · 2024Review
- Auditory Development of Young Children with Profound Hearing Loss, Cochlear Implants, and Congenital CMV Infection.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Prevalence and Risk Factors of Cytomegalovirus Among Men Having Sex With Men Enrolled in a Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Present and Future Applications of Digital PCR in Infectious Diseases Diagnosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Molecular diagnosis of Cytomegalovirus infection: clinical performance of the Aptima transcription-mediated amplification assay toward conventional qPCR chemistry on whole blood samples.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2024Article
- Antiviral Approach to Cytomegalovirus Infection: An Overview of Conventional and Novel Strategies.Microorganisms · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundCMV gastroenteritis is common in patients receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and it is difficult to distinguish from acute graft-versus-host disease (aGvHD), which has very similar symptoms but needs quite different treatment. CMV gastroenteritis is caused by local infection or reactivation of CMV in the gastrointestinal tract while aGvHD is due to immune rejection. The gold standard of diagnosis of CMV gastroenteritis and aGvHD is gastrointestinal biopsy under endoscopy, which is invasive and can potentially lead to severe side effects. Stool samples testing with quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) may be an alternative, while the application in trace level measurements and precision are not all satisfactory enough in reported research.
methodsIn this study, we designed a novel method that extracted the cell free DNA (cfDNA) from the fecal supernatant to perform digital PCR (dPCR) for the detection of CMV, analyzed the performance and compared it with the total DNA extracted by the current procedure.
resultsTwenty-two paired stool samples using two DNA extraction methods proved that the cfDNA extraction method had markedly higher DNA concentrations and control gene copy number, suggesting that cfDNA may be more informative and more useful for the detection of CMV DNA segment. The dPCR approach in detecting CMV DNA segment also exhibit good linearity (R
conclusionThe combined results suggest that detection of CMV by dPCR in cfDNA of stool supernatant is a powerful method to identify CMV gastroenteritis and helps in clinical treatment decision making.
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