High Rate of Monoclonal Gammopathy among Immunocompetent Subjects with Primary Cytomegalovirus Infection
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- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 35 (11) , 1430-1433
- https://doi.org/10.1086/344465
Abstract
Serum samples from immunocompetent adults with primary cytomegalovirus (CMV) or Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection and from solid-organ or bone marrow transplant recipients with primary CMV infection were examined for paraproteins. Several immunocompetent patients with CMV infection but none with EBV infection presented with an M component, which implies that the M component connects CMV infection to a risk of B cell malignancy.Keywords
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