Volume 14, Number 1—January 2008
Letter
Parvoviruses in Blood Donors and Transplant Patients, Italy
Table
Analysis of 417 patients tested for parvoviruses 4/5 by PCR*
| Group | No. cases positive on serum samples/
no. tested (%) |
No. cases positive on PBMCs/
no. tested |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-round PCR | Nested PCR | First-round PCR | Nested PCR | ||
| Blood donors | 0/100 | 1/100 (1) | 0/100 | 0/100 | |
| Patients with suspected viral diseases | 1/84 (1.2) | 1/84 | 0/84 | 0/84 | |
| BM/PBSC transplant recipients | 0/107 | 0/107 | ND | ND | |
| Kidney transplant recipients (%) | 2/126 (1.6) | 2/126 | ND | ND | |
*PBMCs, peripheral blood mononuclear cells; BM, bone marrow; PBSC, peripheral blood stem cell; ND, not done.


