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Two clinical isolates and the Toledo strain of cytomegalovirus contain endothelial cell tropic variants that are not present in the AD169, Towne, or Davis strains.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Mar 1999
MacCormac L P, Grundy J E
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The highly fibroblast-passaged AD169, Towne, and Davis strains of cytomegalovirus (CMV) were found to have a restricted capacity to infect endothelial cells in vitro. Although such replication could be increased by a combination of low speed centrifugation and sodium butyrate treatment, the extracellular virus produced was infectious for fibroblasts but not for endothelial cells. In contrast, the low passage...
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