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Investigations

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Investigations include chest radiography which may show nodular shadowing distributed in the lung fields.

Diagnosis is from rising anti-CMV titres - immunosuppressive drugs permitting - or isolation of the organism from lung aspirates, blood or urine. A lung biopsy may reveal inclusion bodies in the intra-alveolar inflammatory cells.

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