After open-heart surgery post-transfusion mononucleosis developed in six patients who had had cytomegalovirus complement-fixing (CMV-CF) antibody before operation. Three of them showed an appreciable ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: A recent column was from a donor who said his blood was "CMV negative." What does that mean? — D.S. ANSWER: Cytomegalovirus, abbreviated CMV, is a virus in the herpes family that most ...

CMV is also a very common virus. About 85 percent of the U.S. population is infected with it by the time they reach adulthood. As with EBV, CMV is frequently symptomless, and mono most often results ...