| Literature DB >> 16025248 |
Randall J Cohrs1, James J Laguardia, Donald Gilden.
Abstract
Trigeminal ganglia removed at autopsy from immunocompetent individuals without cutaneous signs of herpesvirus infection were fixed, cut into 5-microm sections, and screened at 100-microm intervals (20 adjacent sections) by PCR for latent herpes simplex type 1(HSV-1) and varicella zoster virus (VZV) DNA. Sections that contained >5 neurons with nuclei stained by hematoxylin/eosin revealed HSV-1 DNA in most samples and VZV DNA in approximately 50% of samples. HSV-1 and VZV DNA were distributed throughout each latently infected ganglion.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16025248 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-005-1799-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virus Genes ISSN: 0920-8569 Impact factor: 2.332