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The infection is spread by saliva, urine, respiratory droplets, sexual contact, and blood transfusions. Most people are exposed to the virus in their lifetime, but it usually produces mild or no symptoms in healthy people. [citation needed] However, serious CMV infections can occur in people with weakened immune systems.
A study published in 2009 links infection with CMV to high blood pressure in mice, and suggests that the result of CMV infection of blood vessel endothelium in humans is a major cause of atherosclerosis. [51] Researchers also found that when the cells were infected with CMV, they created renin, a protein known to contribute to high blood pressure.
Diseases associated with HHV-5 include mononucleosis and pneumonia, [4] [5] and congenital CMV in infants can lead to deafness and ambulatory problems. [6] In the medical literature, most mentions of CMV without further specification refer implicitly to human CMV. Human CMV is the most studied of all cytomegaloviruses. [7]
Walking pneumonia infections rose nationwide as kids returned to school this fall. The infection can be tricky to diagnose, and testing is expensive. Doctors may choose different antibiotics to ...
Most people with CMV show no symptoms, but it can cause mild, cold-like illness. Plus, the study didn’t necessarily find that CMV causes Alzheimer’s disease.
Much like Covid-19, walking pneumonia is mostly spread through respiratory droplets from coughing or sneezing. Symptoms include a chest cold with fever, cough, and sore throat.
Cytomegalic inclusion body disease (CIBD) also known as cytomegalic inclusion disease (CID) is a series of signs and symptoms caused by cytomegalovirus infection, toxoplasmosis or other rare infections such as herpes or rubella viruses. It can produce massive calcification of the central nervous system, and often the kidneys. [1]
Walking pneumonia infections are caused by bacteria known as Mycoplasma pneumoniae, which can infect anyone but most often sicken children between the ages of five and 17 and young adults. It is ...