Latent viral infections in critically ill patients

doi:10.1186/cc7902

Critical Care

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Latent viral infections in critically ill patients

Matt P Wise¹ , Paul J Frost¹ , Chris D Hingston¹ and Andrew J Godkin²

¹Adult Critical Care, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK

²School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK

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Critical Care 2009, 13:410doi:10.1186/cc7902


Published:	17 June 2009

See related research by Osawa and Singh, http://ccforum.com/content/13/3/R68

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A key message of Osawa and Singh's review of cytomegalovirus infection in critically ill patients is that the infection occurred in 25% of patients and was associated with worse outcome [1]. Emphasis was placed on the lack of proof of causality between infection and outcome, and reactivation may reflect illness severity.