PMID- 19222466 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090624 LR - 20090430 IS - 1365-2141 (Electronic) IS - 0007-1048 (Linking) VI - 145 IP - 3 DP - 2009 May TI - HHV-6 DNA throughout the tissues of two stem cell transplant patients with chromosomally integrated HHV-6 and fatal CMV pneumonitis. PG - 394-8 LID - 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2009.07622.x [doi] AB - Two patients with the characteristic high human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) DNA loads in peripheral blood caused by chromosomally integrated (CI) virus received a haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) from a donor without CI HHV-6. Both patients died in consequence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis. At autopsy, high amounts of CMV DNA were detected in lungs but at much lower levels in other organs. In contrast HHV-6 DNA was detected at high levels throughout the organs with the exception of donor-derived haematopoietic tissue. In individuals with chromosomal integration, HHV-6 DNA is found in every tissue of recipient origin indicating inheritance through the germ line. FAU - Hubacek, Petr AU - Hubacek P AD - Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine and Motol University Hospital, Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic. petr.hubacek@lfmotol.cuni.cz FAU - Virgili, Anna AU - Virgili A FAU - Ward, Katherine N AU - Ward KN FAU - Pohlreich, David AU - Pohlreich D FAU - Keslova, Petra AU - Keslova P FAU - Goldova, Barbora AU - Goldova B FAU - Markova, Marketa AU - Markova M FAU - Zajac, Miroslav AU - Zajac M FAU - Cinek, Ondrej AU - Cinek O FAU - Nacheva, Elisabeth P AU - Nacheva EP FAU - Sedlacek, Petr AU - Sedlacek P FAU - Cetkovsky, Petr AU - Cetkovsky P LA - eng PT - Case Reports PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20090217 PL - England TA - Br J Haematol JT - British journal of haematology JID - 0372544 RN - 0 (DNA, Viral) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Child MH - Chromosomes, Human/*virology MH - Cytomegalovirus/isolation & purification MH - Cytomegalovirus Infections/mortality MH - DNA, Viral/*analysis MH - Fatal Outcome MH - Female MH - *Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation MH - Herpesvirus 6, Human/*genetics MH - Humans MH - Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/mortality/therapy/virology MH - Lung/virology MH - Male MH - Pneumonia/mortality/virology MH - Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/mortality/therapy/virology MH - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Roseolovirus Infections/genetics/*virology MH - Virus Integration/*genetics EDAT- 2009/02/19 09:00 MHDA- 2009/06/25 09:00 CRDT- 2009/02/19 09:00 PHST- 2009/02/19 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/02/19 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/06/25 09:00 [medline] AID - BJH7622 [pii] AID - 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2009.07622.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Br J Haematol. 2009 May;145(3):394-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2009.07622.x. Epub 2009 Feb 17.