| Literature DB >> 22491451 |
Basel T Assaf1, Keith G Mansfield, Susan V Westmoreland, Amitinder Kaur, Kristie L Oxford, Don J Diamond, Peter A Barry.
Abstract
We previously reported that long-term rhesus cytomegalovirus (RhCMV) excretion in infected macaques was related to UL/b' coding content. Acute biopsy specimens of the inoculation sites from the previous study have now been analyzed to determine whether there were acute phenotypic predictors of long-term RhCMV infection. Only in animals displaying acute endothelial tropism and neutrophilic inflammation was RhCMV excretion detected. The results imply that vaccinating against these early viral determinants would significantly impede long-term RhCMV infection.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22491451 PMCID: PMC3372188 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00607-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103