Rare viral infections in children receiving hemopoietic stem cell transplant

• Published in: Bone marrow transplantation (Basingstoke) Vol. 41; no. S2; pp. S100 - S103
• Main Authors: Castagnola, E, Faraci, M, Moroni, C, Di Marco, E, Cirillo, C, Rabagliati, A M, Ricci, R, Natalizia, A R, de Fazio, V, Morreale, G, Granata, C, Lanino, E, Dini, G, Haupt, R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.06.2008; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Autografts; Bone marrow; Cell Biology; Child; Children; Complications and side effects; Diagnosis; Health aspects; Hematology; Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation - adverse effects; Hematopoietic stem cells; Humans; Immunocompromised Host; Immunosuppression; Infections; Internal Medicine; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; original-article; Public Health; Risk factors; Stem cell transplantation; Stem Cells; Transplantation; Transplantation Conditioning - adverse effects; Transplantation, Autologous; Transplantation, Homologous; Viral diseases; Viral infections; Virus diseases; Virus Diseases - etiology; Virus Diseases - immunology; Italy; autologous HSCT; virus; pediatrics; allogeneic HSCT
• ISSN: 0268-3369; 1476-5365
• DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2008.65

Viral infections are a rare complication in autologous hemopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients but represent a frequent cause of disease after allogeneic HSCT. In the last years, there has been an increase in the number of viral diseases observed in these patients. This fact may be at least partially due to an improvement in diagnostic facilities, but the increasing number of transplant procedures and the more severe immunosuppression may also have played an important role.