Table 2.

Incidence of HCMV infection in the 80 HSCT recipients of the 2 randomization arms according to assay and type of allograft donor



No. of patients (%) in the randomization arm


Parameter
IEmRNA
Antigenemia
P*
Total no. (%)
Positivity for HCMV      
    IEmRNAemia   33 (80.5)   29 (74.4)   NS   62 (77.5)  
    Antigenemia   26 (63.4)   20 (51.3)   NS   46 (57.5)  
    DNAemia   24 (58.5)   24 (61.5)   NS   48 (60.0)  
Type of donor      
    UD   15 of 18 (83.3)   6 of 17 (35.3)   .006  21 of 35 (60.0)  
    Sibling
 
18 of 23 (78.3)
 
14 of 22 (63.7)
 
NS
 
32 of 45 (71.1)
 


No. of patients (%) in the randomization arm


Parameter
IEmRNA
Antigenemia
P*
Total no. (%)
Positivity for HCMV      
    IEmRNAemia   33 (80.5)   29 (74.4)   NS   62 (77.5)  
    Antigenemia   26 (63.4)   20 (51.3)   NS   46 (57.5)  
    DNAemia   24 (58.5)   24 (61.5)   NS   48 (60.0)  
Type of donor      
    UD   15 of 18 (83.3)   6 of 17 (35.3)   .006  21 of 35 (60.0)  
    Sibling
 
18 of 23 (78.3)
 
14 of 22 (63.7)
 
NS
 
32 of 45 (71.1)
 

NS indicates not significant.

*

Chi-square test.

The guiding assay of the relevant arm. Statistical comparison of the 2 guiding assays showed significant difference (P = .006).

Fisher exact test.

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