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ReviewClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2025

Current and Future Strategies for the Prevention and Treatment of Cytomegalovirus Infections in Transplantation.

Madeleine R Heldman, Michael J Boeckh, Ajit P Limaye

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Review in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Cytomegalovirus Vaccines in Transplantation: History, Hurdles, and Hope.Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Madeleine R HeldmanDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9424-1870
Michael J BoeckhDivision of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1538-7984
Ajit P LimayeDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5350-9025

Funding

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health AI16390
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Successful prevention and treatment of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection remains a central focus of clinical care in solid organ transplantation (SOT) and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Over the past 5 years, pivotal clinical trials have created new paradigms in CMV prevention, including diverging approaches in HCT and SOT. We review recent advances in CMV risk assessment and progress in antiviral and immune-based strategies for CMV prevention and treatment. We highlight approaches to optimize CMV-specific immunity through vaccination, monoclonal antibodies, and virus-specific T cells. Observational studies and interventional trials of commercially available CMV cell-mediated immunity assays for refining preventive and treatment strategies are summarized. Finally, we discuss the importance of enhancing CMV-specific immunity to mitigate the negative impacts of CMV in different transplant settings. CMV infections in recipients of chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cell therapies and other immunocompromised populations are growing areas of importance that are beyond the scope of this review.

Indexed as

Cytomegalovirus InfectionsOrgan TransplantationAntiviral AgentsCytomegalovirusHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansImmunocompromised HostAntiviral Agentsantiviralscytomegalovirus (CMV)preemptive therapytransplantationvirus-specific T-cells

Identifiers

PMID39492698
PMCPMC12497962

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