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Coding potential of UL/b' from the initial source of rhesus cytomegalovirus Strain 68-1.
Virology - 1 Dec 2013
Gill Rachel B, Jason Bowman J, Krogmann Tammy, Wollenberg Kurt, Asher David M, Cohen Jeffrey I
Abstract excerpt
Rhesus cytomegalovirus (RhCMV) 68-1 is the prototypic strain of RhCMV that has been used for pathogenesis and vaccine development. We determined the complete sequence of the RhCMV 68-1 UL/b' region directly from the original urine from which RhCMV 68-1 was isolated in 1968, and compared it to other RhCMVs. The laboratory passaged RhCMV 68-1 has inversions, deletions, and stop codons in UL/b' that are absent in...
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