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Lungs are a major organ site of cytomegalovirus latency and recurrence.

Department of Virology, University of Ulm, Germany.

ABSTRACT

Recurrence of infectious virus from the latent viral genomes is the initiating event in the pathogenesis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease during states of immunodeficiency. Interstitial pneumonia is a frequent manifestation of posttransplantation CMV disease, in particular after bone marrow transplantation and heart and lung transplantations. Recurrence can occur within the transplant derived from a latent infected donor as well as within latently infected organs of the transplant recipient. The reason for a predilection of the lungs as a site of CMV pathology is so far unknown. In a murine model of CMV latency, the lungs were identified as an authentic site of latent infection, since the viral genome remained detectable in lung tissue even after it was cleared to an undetectable level in blood and bone marrow. A comparison between the lungs and the spleen, the previously most thoroughly investigated site of murine CMV latency, revealed a 10-fold-higher burden of latent viral genome for the lungs. Most important, the organ-specific risk of in vivo recurrence was found to correlate with the organ-specific viral genomic load. This new finding thus characterizes the lungs as a high-risk organ for CMV recurrence, and this fact may explain in part why interstitial pneumonia is a frequent manifestation of recurrent CMV infection.

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