M. Parea

TL;DR: Follow-up of HCMV infections in heart transplant recipients showed that PCR can detect viral appearance in blood 7-10 days earlier than assays for antigenemia/viremia, and viral disappearance from blood, as assessed by PCR, occurred weeks or months later than revealed by other assays.

TL;DR: PMNL and M/M are the subpopulations primarily involved in HCMV infection; PMNL may undergo IE replicative events and are not merely passive carriers of phagocytized viral material.

TL;DR: It was concluded that direct detection of HCMV IEA in PMNLs, yielding results on the day of blood collection, is a very rapid and sensitive technique, and thus one can rely on it for clinical management of H CMV infections; and low levels of viremia are clinically irrelevant, whereas high levels are associated with clinical symptoms.

TL;DR: Two new human rotavirus strains, PA151 and PA169, with subgroup I specificity and a long RNA pattern, yet with a serotype G (VP7) specificity different from those of any of the six well-established HRV serotypes are taken into consideration when deciding strategies for the development of an effective RV vaccine.

TL;DR: Among concordant positive samples, a significant correlation was observed between the number of IEA‐positive PMN leukocytes and EA‐positive nuclei of infected fibroblasts, when the same number of PMNs were used for both tests.