Cytomegalovirus antigenemia in patients with autoimmune and non-autoimmune diseases in Beijing: A 10−year single hospital experience

Abstract

CMV antigenemia is found more likely in women than in men, more prevalently in patients with SLE than those with HIV/AIDS or transplant recipients, more frequently in patients admitted to ICUs. Patients with SLE had prolonged CMV antigenemia. The role of CMV appears important in SLE.