Mary Kay Breinig

TL;DR: Data suggest that EBV plays an etiologic role in the development of B cell lymphomas or lymphoproliferative lesions after kidney, liver, heart, or heart-lung transplantation in Pittsburgh during 1981-1983.

TL;DR: The results reinforce the importance of primary EBV infection in producing LPS, which was previously shown in adults, and children are at greater risk because they are more likely to be seronegative for EBV and to acquire primary infection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied 121 consecutive adult liver transplant recipients at their institution to analyze the incidence, timing, risk factors, and clinical outcome associated with herpesviruses infections, and determined whether the hepatic allograft was a significant source of CMV infection and whether the use of newer immunosuppressive measures, such as OKT3 monoclonal antibody (Ortho Pharmaceutical, Raritan, NJ) introduced for treating liver rejection, had a measurable impact on CMV or HSV infection.

TL;DR: The donor organ appeared to be the only important source of CMV infection in seronegative recipients and the use of OKT3 antibodies was associated with disseminated CMV disease in patients with primary infection but not with reactivation infection.

TL;DR: HSV-2 infection as determined by seroprevalence was significantly and independently associated with age, years of sexual activity, race, one or more episodes of other genital infections, lower annual family income, and multiple sexual partners.