Volume: 26S4 - September 2000

Expert Working Group on HHV-6 and 7 Laboratory Diagnosis and Testing

March 7-8, 2000

Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health
Winnipeg, Canada

Bureau of Microbiology*
Bureau of Infectious Diseases**
Reference Laboratory Capacity Program for Infectious Disease Surveillance
Laboratory Centre for Disease Control***
Health Canada

Health Canada re-alignment:
* Laboratory for Human and Animal Health
** Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
*** Public Health Agency of Canada

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Recommendations

Overview

• Properties of HHV-6/7 and overview of the clinical spectrum of disease (Pellett)

Laboratory

• Methods Overview of current HHV-6/7 diagnostic methods (Tipples)
• Standardization and QA/QC issues in laboratory virology (Campione-Piccardo)

International Research

• HHV-6 and 7 serology: comparison of epidemiologic findings from different countries and different assays (Cermelli and Jacobson)
• HHV-6 and multiple sclerosis (Jacobson)

Research in Canada

• HHV-6 in kidney transplantation (Acott and Lee)
• HHV-6, HHV-7 and CMV plasma viremia in bone marrow transplant recipients (Diaz-Mitoma)
• Diagnosis and management of HHV-6 infection among bone marrow transplant recipients in Toronto (Allen)
• HHV-6 in patients who are heterophile antibody negative with atypical lymphocytes and/or lymphocytosis (Doyle)
• HHV-6 in the pediatric setting (Thomas)
• Multiplex assay for semi-quantitative detection and distinction of human ß-herpesviruses: Prevalence during HIV infection and multiple sclerosis (Sahai)
• HHV-6 studies at the Central Laboratory of the Ontario Ministry of Health (George)
• HHV-6 testing at the Provincial Laboratory of Public Health for Southern Alberta (Fonseca)
• Pediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (Embree)

Surveillance of the Blood Supply

• Surveillance for bloodborne pathogens in Canada (Giulivi)

Appendix 1: Participant List

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