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Use of In vivo Imaging to Monitor the Progression of Experimental Mouse Cytomegalovirus Infection in Neonates
Published on: July 6, 2013
Cytomegalovirus - its cellular immunology and biology
J G Sissons1, L K Borysiewicz, B Rodgers
1MRC Clinical Immunology Research Group, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London W12 0HS, UK.
Abstract:
The biology of persistent virus infections presents many intriguing questions, which extend well beyond classical virology into molecular and cell biology and immunology. Here, Patrick Sissons and his colleagues review the current state of knowledge of the biology and immunology of one particular medically important persistent human virus - human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and they discuss insights into the normal and pathological virus-host relationship provided by recent work both on HCMV itself, and on its murine counterpart mouse cytomegalovirus (MCMV).
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