Talk:Cytomegalovirus

message: The "CMV in Humans" (to the end of the article) was taken pretty much verbatim from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention document, entitled Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection.
As far as I can see, this is a public domain document.
I took a bit of POV out, though it's clearly oriented from the point of view of how to best manage the disease. Have at it! Rholton
CMV is not the most common agent of infection, so I removed that sentence. EBV has higher antibody prevalence rates; more fundamentally, the statement does not make sense as there are bacteria that can be found in 100% of the population (e.g., coag-negative staph) that are sometimes responsible for opportunistic infections. 
From Wikipedia:Peer Review:
:The U.S. government is listed on Wikipedia:Public domain resources. There is a caveat or two, so check that page for more information. Unless CMV also has significant effects on animals, you should remove the heading ===CMV in humans=== and upgrade all subsequent headings as appropriate. More importantly, some separation should probably be made between descriptive content and lists of advice. People are generally averse to having instructive content on the wiki. I think that this is a case where it can stay, but only if it's separated out into a section of its own. -Smack 19:04, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: CMV in humans

message: While CMV may be sexually transmitted, my bias is that the category should include only those diseases that are classically considered STDs, e.g. gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphyllis, etc.  Otherwise, to be consistent, the category should also include diseases that are not conventionally categorized as STDs like hepatitis C, etc.  Andrew73 22:10, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sexually transmitted disease category

message: Since this is herpes, would that mean it is easily contracted through saliva? In this case, kissing might be a big method of transferring it. Depending on how much of a factor it is (other environmental, or prenatal contraction), perhaps avoiding some of these physical methods of social connection would greatly extend human lifespans, until we find better methods of extending T-cell function so Cytomegalovirus doesn't take up all our immune resources. Tyciol 18:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Methods of contraction

message: HCMV (human cytomegalovirus) is redundant. Axl 21:10, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree G716 21:50, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Okay, I've done it. Axl 07:06, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: Ozkan TB, Mistik R, Dikici B, Nazlioglu HO.(2006) "Antiviral therapy in neonatal cholestatic cytomegalovirus hepatitis". BMC Gastroenterology 7:9.  [free full text at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-230X/7/9]
Looks like the history page automatically documented this, so I guess this note is just clutter. (Sorry... very new at this...) 
Should there be greater emphasis on the effect cytomegalovirus has in unnecessarily choking the immune system, and compromising its performance in the elderly ? If so, it is a major contributor to unwanted inflammation, and premature aging. The issues are outlined at: http://www.fightaging.org/archives/001057.php  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.240.172.135 (talk) 22:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  added reference 

message: CMV has been linked to recurrence of glioblastoma following radio/chemo.
One report was in SciAm 'Mind' issue on brain.
One report has Scand. work on an anti-viral as promising for glioblastoma (adding a few months to average survival)
Given glioblastoma prevalence and morbidity, perhaps the importance of this article should be bumped up.
(JVI) http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full/81/19/10424
(NEJM) 
Prins RM, Cloughesy TF, Liau LM
The New England Journal of Medicine 2008, 359(5):539-41 on a clinical trial
(NIH 2007) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17652378
(Duke U 2008 trial, on-going in 2010)
http://clinicaltrialsfeeds.org/clinical-trials/show/NCT00693095
A current clinical trial on survival times: (Baylor 2010 - starting 11/2010) http://clinicaltrialsfeeds.org/clinical-trials/show/NCT01205334  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grshiplett (talk • contribs) 14:09, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  CMV and glioblastoma recurrence 

message: This article really needs some work.
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thread_title: Outdated references and non-MEDR compliant

message: This is a boring page. Too much taxonomy, not enough discussion of actual biology. There is no information on which cells it infects - in the mouse spleen, for example, it targets endothelial cells and causes a significant redistribution of lymphocytes - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.0020016 170.223.207.119 (talk) 18:33, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Cytomegaloviruses do not infect mice. If you mean mouse cytomegalovirus, it belongs to a different genus. Ruslik_Zero 19:44, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs improvement