Sentences with phrase «called cytomegalovirus»
However, the depletion of the patient's immune system prior to transplantation can put patients at risk of for an infection by a virus called cytomegalovirus (CMV) that can be life threatening in these immune - compromised individuals.
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The Epstein - Barr virus (EBV), also called Human herpesvirus 4 (HHV - 4), is a virus of the herpes family (which includes Herpes simplex virus and Cytomegalovirus), and is one of the most common viruses in humans.
Understanding the placenta might one day lead to ways to prevent fetal damage from the so - called TORCH infections: toxoplasmosis, rubella, cytomegalovirus, herpes and HIV, he added.
Experimenting with human cells and mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have found that a genetic mutation that alters a protein called NOD1 may increase susceptibility to human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection.