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Structure and variability of the UL149 open reading frame from low-passage clinical isolates of human cytomegalovirus.
Journal of virological methods - 1 Jan 2006
Ji Yao-hua, Ruan Qiang, Sun Zheng-rong, Ma Yan-ping, He Rong, Qi Ying, Huang Yu-jing
Abstract excerpt
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a ubiquitous herpesvirus, causes a lifelong subclinical infection in healthy adults but leads to significant morbidity and mortality in neonates and immunocompromised individuals. A region (referred to as UL/b') present in the Toledo strain of HCMV and low passage clinical isolates contains 19 additional genes, which are absent in the highly passage laboratory strain AD169. One of...
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