| cytomegalovirus infection and excretion in residents of a nursing home. | cytomegalovirus (cmv), following primary infection, usually remains latent with the potential for reactivation and excretion in saliva and urine. the prevalence of cmv excretion has not been studied among the elderly. this study followed 54 nursing home residents (mean age 83 years and medically stable, but with a wide spectrum of medical conditions). over a 6 month period these subjects were serially tested for viral excretion in saliva and urine and for cmv antibody. while approximately 93% of ... | 1991 | 1658211 |
| pulmonary complications of aids: henry ford hospital experience between january 1984 and july 1986. | | 1987 | 2824409 |
| yield and costs of screening growth-retarded infants for torch infections. | many infants with intrauterine growth retardation (iugr) are screened for torch infections. the yield and costs of such a practice may not be justifiable. medical charts of infants with iugr who had a workup for toxoplasmosis, other (infections), rubella, cytomegalovirus (infection), and herpes (simplex) (titer) (torch) infections were reviewed for the presence of clinical findings, laboratory and head ultrasound abnormalities associated with intrauterine infections. maternal charts and reports ... | 2000 | 11012137 |
| thomas huckle weller md: nobel laureate and research pioneer in poliomyelitis, varicella-zoster virus, cytomegalovirus, rubella, and other infectious diseases. | in 1954, the nobel prize for medicine was awarded to drs john enders, thomas weller, and frederick robbins for their watershed discovery that growth of poliomyelitis virus occurred in cultures of cells of extraneural origin, first reported in 1949. their demonstration in 1949 that the lansing type ii strain of poliomyelitis could be grown in cultures of human embryonic tissue set into motion a race to develop a vaccine for the disease that had crippled countless thousands of individuals. the dis ... | 2002 | 12118846 |
| non-bacterial infections in allogeneic non-myeloablative stem cell transplant recipients. | data on non-bacterial infections during allogeneic non-myeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) are widely different. we evaluated data on 48 consecutive patients who received a conditioning regimen with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide (73%) or fludarabine and total body irradiation (27%) and then underwent allogeneic non-myeloablative hsct. cytomegalovirus (cmv) infection was common and occurred in 48% of patients; 3 patients developed cmv disease, and all survived. cmv rea ... | 2007 | 17313464 |
| stiver v. parker. | in this michigan negligence case, the u.s. court of appeals, sixth circuit, determined the rights and duties in a surrogacy agreement established prior to michigan's 1988 statutory criminalization of such agreements. due to the surrogate mother's exposure to cytomegalovirus, the baby suffered birth defects. the source of the cytomegalovirus was undetermined; it could have been the contracting father or the mother's husband, who was actually the biological father of the child. although the agreem ... | 1992 | 11648601 |