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Viral Infections

Per Ljungman  1   2 , Jan Styczynski  3 , Hermann Einsele  4
Enric Carreras  1 , Carlo Dufour  2 , Mohamad Mohty  3 , Nicolaus Kröger  4
, editors.
In: The EBMT Handbook: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies [Internet]. 7th edition. Cham (CH): Springer; 2019. Chapter 38.
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Viral Infections

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CMV can cause symptoms from almost any organ as well as unspecific symptoms such as fever, malaise, and bone marrow suppression in stem cell transplant patients. However, the most important clinical entities in allo-HSCT patients are pneumonia, gastroenteritis, and retinitis.

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