Antiviral drug resistance: mechanisms and clinical implications

L Strasfeld, S Chou - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2010 - id.theclinics.com
In the setting of intensive immunosuppression for the management of rejection in solid organ
transplant (SOT) recipients, or graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in hematopoietic stem cell …

Lung transplantation

RM Kotloff, G Thabut - American journal of respiratory and critical …, 2011 - atsjournals.org
First performed in 1963, lung transplantation is approaching the half-century mark. With
more than 32,000 procedures having been performed worldwide, lung transplantation has …

Outcomes in transplant recipients treated with foscarnet for ganciclovir-resistant or refractory cytomegalovirus infection

RK Avery, R Arav-Boger, KA Marr, E Kraus… - …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Background Antiviral-resistant or refractory cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is challenging,
and salvage therapies, foscarnet, and cidofovir, have significant toxicities. Several …

[HTML][HTML] First report of successful treatment of multidrug-resistant cytomegalovirus disease with the novel anti-CMV compound AIC246

DR Kaul, S Stoelben, E Cober, T Ojo… - American Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
We report the first case of cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease treated with AIC246, a novel anti-
CMV compound which targets the viral terminase complex and remains active against virus …

Use of letermovir as salvage therapy for drug-resistant cytomegalovirus retinitis

N Turner, A Strand, DS Grewal, G Cox… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Treatment options for drug-resistant cytomegalovirus (CMV) are limited. Letermovir is a
novel antiviral recently approved for CMV prophylaxis following hematopoietic cell …

Cytomegalovirus UL97 mutations in the era of ganciclovir and maribavir

S Chou - Reviews in medical virology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Mutations in the human CMV UL97 kinase gene are a major mechanism of viral resistance
to two anti‐CMV drugs, ganciclovir (GCV) and maribavir (MBV). GCV, the most widely used …

Cytomegalovirus treatment

BH Tan - Current treatment options in infectious diseases, 2014 - Springer
Opinion statement In treating cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, it is crucial to decide whether
one is treating pre-emptively or if one is treating established disease. Disease may be …

Resistance of human cytomegalovirus to ganciclovir/valganciclovir: a comprehensive review of putative resistance pathways

TE Komatsu, A Pikis, LK Naeger, PR Harrington - Antiviral research, 2014 - Elsevier
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a pathogen that can be life-threatening in
immunocompromised individuals. Valganciclovir and its parent drug ganciclovir are …

Recombinant phenotyping of cytomegalovirus UL97 kinase sequence variants for ganciclovir resistance

S Chou - Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A strain of human cytomegalovirus, T2211, modified from standard laboratory
strain AD169 to contain a secreted alkaline phosphatase reporter gene for rapid viral …

Ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus infections among lung transplant recipients are associated with poor outcomes despite treatment with foscarnet-containing …

LR Minces, MH Nguyen, D Mitsani… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections are reported infrequently among
lung transplant recipients receiving extended valganciclovir prophylaxis. We performed a …