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One patient had coinfection of EBV and HHV-6 during anticancer treatment detected by PCR [EBV (+++) positive, HHV-6 (+)] with serological evidence of primary EBV infection and reactivation of HHV-6.
ELISA testing kit (DIESSE ®, Germany) was used to test the EBV VCA IgM, EBV VCA IgG, EBV EBNA IgG antibodies [ 20 ] and ELISA testing kit (MEDAC ®, Czech Republic) was used to test the CMV IgM and CMV IgG antibodies in patient sera [ 21 ] . Immunofluorescence assay (IFA) kit (BAG ®, Germany) was used to test the HHV-6 IgM and HHV-6 IgG antibodies [ 22 ] . All tests were performed according to manufacturer's instructions.
EBV EBNA IgG positive (of any grade) case with the presence of the same pattern of EBV VCA IgM and/or EBV VCA IgG positivity as in the primary infection was considered as an EBV reactivation.
We were able to distinguish primary infection from reactivation in all cases of symptomatic EBV infection based on EBNA IgG status.
Frequent infection with herpesviruses has long been recognized in patients undergoing allogeneic transplantation [ 7 8 ] and in patients with acute leukemia [ 1 2 ] . In patients with acute leukemia it has been reported that as many as two thirds of seropositive patients can develop reactivation of herpes simplex virus infection during remission induction therapy [ 26 ] . The risk of CMV infection in acute leukemia patients was recognized almost 30 years ago [ 27 ] but is of particular concern in patients undergoing allogeneic transplantation [ 2 28 ] . EBV infection is frequently associated with post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorders in T cell-depleted grafts [ 29 ] . As recently reported, HHV-6 can also be associated with bone marrow supression [ 30 ] , encephalitis and pneumonitis [ 7 8 ] after allogeneic transplantation.
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