Incidence of HHV7 in donors and recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Abstract

We read with the great interest the article of by Khanani et al. 1 and were surprised with the extremely low incidence of detected Human Herpesvirus 7 (HHV7) in paediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients, which is not in agreement with our experience.

Keywords

• herpesviruses
• HHV7
• allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell
• transplantation