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Despite the low prevalence, CMV antiviral resistance has an important impact on patient outcomes. Guidelines for transplant recipients recommend that resistance should be suspected in cases of unchanged or increasing CMV viral loads after a minimum of 2 weeks of antiviral therapy at an appropriate dose or &gt;6 weeks of ganciclovir exposure. Next-generation amplicon sequencing (NGS) makes it possible to directly target the genes involved in this resistance. Currently, six drugs are available, and six CMV genes (UL54-UL97-UL89-UL56-UL51-UL27 genes) can harbor mutations affecting drug efficacy. Here, we developed different primers targeting these six genes with long-range polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Based on clinical requirements, all genes or a subset could be sequenced in a single run using Oxford Nanopore technology and combined with an automatic bioinformatics pipeline to detect and report mutations. 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