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Etiologic Agent
CMV is a herpes virus. This group of viruses include herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2, varicella-zoster virus, and Epstein-Barr virus. These viruses share a characteristic ability to remain dormant within the body for life. After initial infection, which may cause few symptoms, CMV becomes latent, residing in cells without causing detectable damage or clinical illness. Severe impairment of the body's immune system by medication or disease may allow the virus to reactivate from the latent or dormant state and become symptomatic.
Reservoir
The virus is past from person to person through direct contact with body fluids. People who are infected with CMV sometimes shed the virus in body fluids, such as urine, saliva, blood, tears, semen, and breast milk. The shedding of virus may take (Kendall O smith, Lucy Rasmussen, 1963)place intermittently, without any detectable signs, and without causing symptoms.
Morphology
Enterovirus is protein capsid and single stranded positive sense RNA. When stained it looks like DNA virus almost identical in size to herpes virus. Both virus have enveloped forms and displays protein membrane subunits.
Diseases
This virus can cause Polio.
Signs and symptoms
Minor symptoms are as fallows fever, fatigue, nausea, headache, and flu like symptoms, stiff neck and back, pain in limbs. Some major symptoms are paralysis, disfigurement of the spine and limbs.
Transmission
Come in contact with in infected person body fluids. The fecal oral route is another way to contract CMV or if you eat contaminated food or water.
Lab Diagnosis
You can test the blood, saliva, urine, and other body tissue via cultures. The most common available is a serologic test for measuring antibody of CMV.
Treatment and Prevention
CMV infections in a healthy person are common and typically caused no symptoms, efforts to prevent transmission are not necessary for most groups of people. Hand washing is the best way to prevent any type of transmission of any type of virus or bacteria.
Immunity
There is no immunity for CMV.
Bibliography
Kendall O smith, Lucy Rasmussen. (1963). Morphology Of cytomegalovirus. Journal od bacteriology, 1319-1325.
Unknown. (2012, April 20). cdcinfo@cdc.gov. Retrieved from Center for disease control and precention: http://www.cdcinfo@cdc.gov
