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To determine whether costimulation through human CD81 affected these early activation events, peripheral blood cells from normal CMV seropositive donors were incubated for 6 h with a superantigen, SEB, or the viral antigen, CMV, in the presence or absence of an agonistic anti-CD81 mAb, 5A6.
Of recipients who were seropositive for hepatitis C, 0.8% were hospitalized for hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome during the study period vs. 0.2% of HCV negative recipients (p < 0.001 by Chi Square), and of patients hospitalized for hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome, 16.
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.
Since a majority of the population is seropositive for CMV, reactivation of CMV in immunosuppressed patients may further accentuate the reactivation of EBV therefore contributing to the proliferation of EBV infected B-cells.
Seventy-five per cent of the CMV seropositive subjects and 85% of the CMV seronegative subjects were Caucasian; the remainder were Afro-American.
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