Cytomegalovirus Reactivation During Steroid Therapy for COVID-19
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is treated with steroids, often at immunosuppressive doses and for prolonged periods of time, exposing patients to the risk of developing opportunistic infections. Among these, reactivation of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 has been reported. In this article, we present one case from our own clinical practice and review existing evidence on this topic. The real incidence of CMV reactivation during COVID-19 remains unknown due to the absence of prospective systematic investigations. It may have however a substantial prognostic significance. Therefore, the current recommendation is to maintain a high level of suspicion and search for CMV-deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in the presence of suggestive signs and symptoms. CMV reactivation can be successfully treated with antivirals, as our own clinical experience shows. Clin Infect Immun. 2021;6(3):86-91 doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/cii142
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".