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Is it common for kidney transplant patients to get cytomegalovirus? is the virus always active in transplant patients? any med to make it inactive?
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Ganciclovir/Valganci: Ganciclovir/valganciclovir. Needs supervision when taken. It is common, the CMV status should have been checked pre transplant.
Answered 6/10/2014
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