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Coding potential of laboratory and clinical strains of human cytomegalovirus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 Dec 2003
Murphy Eain, Yu Dong, Grimwood Jane, Schmutz Jeremy, Dickson Mark, Jarvis Michael A, Hahn Gabriele, Nelson Jay A, Myers Richard M, Shenk Thomas E
Abstract excerpt
Six strains of human cytomegalovirus have been sequenced, including two laboratory strains (AD169 and Towne) that have been extensively passaged in fibroblasts and four clinical isolates that have been passaged to a limited extent in the laboratory (Toledo, FIX, PH, and TR). All of the sequenced viral genomes have been cloned as infectious bacterial artificial chromosomes. A total of 252 ORFs with the potential...
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