Cytomegalovirus

Leukocyte Reduction Lowers Viral Load

Published in Blood Weekly, July 26th, 2001

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Three different leukocyte reduction (LR) techniques are effective for culling cytomegalovirus (CMV) populations in blood products, according to researchers in the United States.

L.J. Dumont and colleagues in Colorado conducted a study comparing "the effectiveness of 3 leukocyte reduction methods in depleting the residual level of cytomegalovirus in blood products measured by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (QA-PCR)." The results of their research were published in the journal Blood.

All of the LR techniques studied produced substantial reductions in CMV loads in samples taken from CMV-infected...

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