Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Detection of community-acquired respiratory viruses in allogeneic stem-cell transplant recipients and controls-A prospective cohort study.
Community-acquired respiratory viruses (CARV) cause upper and lower respiratory tract infections (URTI/LRTI) and may be life-threatening for recipients of an allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT). ⋯ Allo-SCT-recipients have more CARV-infections, exhibit a different epidemiology, have more cases of co-infection or prolonged shedding and have a higher rate of LRTI and mortality.