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Abstract
Viral infection is a well-known risk of blood product transfusion and much work has been devoted for the detection of such well-known pathogen as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis viruses in blood donors. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is found in a much larger percentage of donor units than other viruses but will cause disease in only a minority of recipients (Gunter, 1995).
Cytomegalovirus is a double stranded DNA virus, which can be transmitted by blood transfusion and belongs to the Herpesviridae family (Drago et al., 2000).
Human CMV remains an important cause of illness in immunocompromized individuals and the most common viral cause of congenital malformation (Rawlinson, 1999).
It was previously reported that the use of PCR in detecting CMV DNA in serum enables the detection of CMV viremia, which has not been possible with other methods (Matsumage et al., 1999).