| Grant number: | 09/17830-0 |
| Support type: | Regular Research Grants |
| Duration: | May 01, 2010 - April 30, 2013 |
| Field of knowledge: | Health Sciences - Medicine - Pathological Anatomy and Clinical Pathology |
| Principal researcher: | Sandra Helena Alves Bonon |
| Grantee: | Sandra Helena Alves Bonon |
| Home Institution: | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil |
| Assoc. researchers: | Sandra Cecília Botelho Costa |
Abstract
The herpesviruses are major causes of complications after transplantation because of their latent nature and reinfection due to immunosuppressive drugs, leading the individual susceptibility to infection and disease. The use of diagnostic techniques such infections are becoming increasingly necessary, including directing the treatment and during periods where the infection is active viral replication occurs. Diagnostic methods such as antigenemia are excellent for use in diagnosis and monitoring of these patients, allowing early diagnosis and semi-quantitative, offering patients a more appropriate early treatment with antivirals or reduction of immunosuppression, infection control, not to run the illness or even death. (AU)