What are the long term effects of cytomegalovirus on the body?

Answer 1

I am not sure what the long term effects are.

I do know that when I was in college I would donate plasma twice a week.

I was told that at one time I did have cytomegalovirus, and that my plasma now had an extra enzyme or something.

I got extra cash everytime I donated plasma!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Initial CMV infection, which may have few symptoms, is always followed by a prolonged, inapparent infection during which the virus resides in cells without causing detectable damage or clinical illness. Severe impairment of the body's immune system by medication or disease (see below) may reactivate the virus from the latent or dormant state.

Infectious CMV may be shed in the bodily fluids of any previously infected person, and thus may be found in urine, saliva, blood, tears, semen, and breast milk. The shedding of virus may take place intermittently, without any detectable signs, and without causing symptoms.

Microscopically, CMV can be demonstrated by intranuclear inclusion bodies, which show that the virus replicates in the nucleus rather than the cytosol. These inclusion bodies stain dark pink on an H&E stain, and are also called "Owl's Eye" inclusion bodies.

Answer 4

I hope this helps some.
http://www.atdn.org/simple/cmv.html