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Covid: Delhi Apollo hospital records 6 cases of cytomegalovirus in 30 days

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COVID 19 pneumonia in the preceding month, received high doses of steroids and had turned Covid negative at the time of detection of CMV disease, they said.

Cytomegalovirus infection is a common herpesvirus infection with a wide range of symptoms: from no symptoms to fever and fatigue (resembling infectious mononucleosis) to severe symptoms involving the eyes, brain, or other internal organs.

The cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease is usually found in patients with immunocompromised status like those who suffer from HIV, low CD4 counts, or are cancer post-transplant patients on immunosuppressive medicines etc.

Suppression of immunity due to COVID-19 and steroids gives CMV a chance to attack patients. The virus otherwise exists in 80-90 percent

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