The goal of this observational study is to assess the risk of viral infections in patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from a haploidentical donor compared to those who receive HSCT from a HLA-matched donor. The main question it aims to answer is: to describe which viruses are replicating in the blood of the above two patient groups on the day of transplantation and at 1, 3 and 6 months after transplantation. Blood samples taken as part of routine care on the day of transplantation and at 1, 3 and 6 months post-transplantation visits are analyzed and the types and amount of viruses detected in the two groups of patients are described.
Geneva University Hospitals are one of the three centers performing allogeneic HSCT in Switzerland. Since several years the Division of infectious diseases runs a collaborative research program with the Division of Hematology. In 2015 the two divisions jointly created a prospective cohort of allo-HSCT patients called: "Infectious diseases in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients cohort" enrolling potentially all adult patients engrafted in our center since 2015 (CCER protocol 15-120 and relative amendments). The cohort compiles clinical data on hematological and infectious complications occurring up to one year after transplantation and biological specimen collected systematically until up to 2 years after transplantation, which are stored in a joint biobank.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
52
Geneva University Hospitals
Geneva, Switzerland
Describe the blood virome in haploidentical and HLA-matched allo-HSCT recipients during the first 6 months after transplantation.
Describe the types of viruses detected as well as their frequency in the blood virome of haplo- HSCT patients compared to the HLA-matched group by metagenomic next generation sequencing
Time frame: 6 months after transplantation
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