Cytomegalovirus infection
Description of the disease
Symptoms
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infects many people, but with normal immunity, the infection does not cause symptoms. Once CMV enters the human body, it remains there for life. When immunity becomes compromised (after transplantation, with AIDS), CMV starts to multiply unchecked, leading to fever, bone marrow suppression, and possible inflammation of the lungs, liver, colon, kidneys, and retina.
Source | Author Doctor Nikas Samuolis, reviewed by Prof. Virginijus Šapoka | Vilnius University | Faculty of Medicine | Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Oncology