CMV Infections Affect More Than Just Patients With Compromised Immune Systems
Saturday, July 26, 2008 - 23:21
in Health & Medicine
An infection due to a virus called cytomegalovirus, which most commonly affects people with compromised immune systems, can also affect hospital intensive-care patients who have no immune-system problems, researchers have found. CMV infection is also associated with longer hospital and intensive-care unit stays independent of other causes, according to the study.