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HCMV Infection and Apoptosis: How Do Monocytes Survive HCMV Infection?
29 Sept 2018
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Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection of peripheral blood monocytes plays a key role in the hematogenous dissemination of the virus to multiple organ systems following primary infection or reactivation of latent virus in the bone marrow. Monocytes have a short life span of 1⁻3 days in circulation; thus, HCMV must alter their survival and differentiation to utilize these cells and their differentiated...
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