Human herpesvirus 6 reactivation and encephalitis in allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipients

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D M Zerr1, T A Gooley, L Yeung

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. zerr@u.washington.edu

Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
|August 21, 2001
PubMed

To determine whether receipt of an investigational anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (BC3) increased the risk of human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) reactivation and development of encephalitis in bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients, persons who had and had not received BC3 were compared. Odds of HHV-6 reactivation were higher among BC3 recipients than among control patients (odds ratio, 2.5; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.3-4.7). In addition, BC3 recipients were more likely than control patients to develop encephalitis (risk ratio [RR], 3.5; 95% CI, 1.3-9.5), and this association followed a BC3 dose-dependent relationship (P=.03, by Mantel-Haenszel chi(2) test). In a multivariable model, HHV-6 reactivation and receipt of BC3 were associated with increased risk of encephalitis (RR, 5.4; 95% CI, 1.9-15.3, and RR, 3.3; 95% CI, 1.2-9.1, respectively). In conclusion, both HHV-6 reactivation and receipt of BC3 for prophylaxis of acute graft-versus-host disease independently increased the risk of encephalitis in allogeneic BMT recipients. Prospective studies to better define the relationship between HHV-6 reactivation and encephalitis in allogeneic BMT recipients are warranted.

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