Integrated immunologic monitoring in solid organ transplantation: the road toward torque Teno virus-guided immunosuppression

P Jaksch, I Görzer, E Puchhammer-Stöckl… - Transplantation, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Potent immunosuppressive drugs have been introduced into clinical care for solid organ
transplant recipients. It is now time to guide these drugs on an individual level to optimize …

The enigmatic roles of Anelloviridae and Redondoviridae in humans

LJ Taylor, EL Keeler, FD Bushman… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anelloviridae and Redondoviridae are virus families with small, circular, single-stranded
DNA genomes that are common components of the human virome. Despite their small …

Paucibacterial microbiome and resident DNA virome of the healthy conjunctiva

T Doan, L Akileswaran, D Andersen… - … & visual science, 2016 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: To characterize the ocular surface microbiome of healthy volunteers using a
combination of microbial culture and high-throughput DNA sequencing techniques …

Quantification of torque teno virus viremia as a prospective biomarker for infectious disease in kidney allograft recipients

R Strassl, M Schiemann, K Doberer… - The Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Drug-induced immunosuppression following kidney transplantation is crucial to
prevent allograft rejection, but increases risk for infectious disease. Tailoring of drug dosing …

[HTML][HTML] The perioperative lung transplant virome: torque teno viruses are elevated in donor lungs and show divergent dynamics in primary graft dysfunction

AA Abbas, JM Diamond, C Chehoud, B Chang… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) is a principal cause of early morbidity and mortality after
lung transplantation, but its pathogenic mechanisms are not fully clarified. To date, studies …

Beyond cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus: a review of viruses composing the blood virome of solid organ transplant and hematopoietic stem cell transplant …

MC Zanella, S Cordey, L Kaiser - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viral primary infections and reactivations are common complications in patients after solid
organ transplantation (SOT) and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and are …

Torque Teno virus load—inverse association with antibody-mediated rejection after kidney transplantation

M Schiemann, E Puchhammer-Stöckl… - …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) represents one of the cardinal causes of
late allograft loss after kidney transplantation, and there is great need for noninvasive tools …

Torque teno virus as a novel biomarker targeting the efficacy of immunosuppression after lung transplantation

P Jaksch, M Kundi, I Görzer, G Muraközy… - The Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Torque teno viruses (TTV) are small DNA-viruses, of the genus Alphatorquevirus, whose
replication is linked to immune status. TTV load may be an indicator for efficacy of IS in lung …

Pre-transplant plasma Torque Teno virus load and increase dynamics after lung transplantation

I Görzer, P Jaksch, M Kundi, T Seitz, W Klepetko… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background The human Torque Teno virus (TTV) causes persistent viremia in most
immunocompetent individuals. Elevated TTV levels are observed after solid organ …

Torque teno virus for risk stratification of acute biopsy-proven alloreactivity in kidney transplant recipients

R Strassl, K Doberer… - The Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Drug-induced immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients is crucial to
prevent allograft rejection, but increases risk for infectious disease. Immunologic monitoring …