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Reactivation of human cytomegalovirus inhibits expression of liver fibrosis related cytokines in patients chronically infected with hepatitis C virus genotype 4a.
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Mar 2021
El-Meguid Mai Abd, Dawood Reham M, Ibrahim Marwa K, Salum Ghada M, Ahmed Abd Alla Mohamed Darwish, El Awady Mostafa K
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BACKGROUND: The impact of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) reactivation on the expression pattern of matrix metalloproteinases, their inhibitors and related cytokines during HCV infection poorly understood. METHODS: Reactivation of CMV in 95 subjects (75 chronically infected HCV patients and 20 healthy subjects) was examined. All studied subjects had detectable IgG antibodies for CMV, but only 35/75 of HCV patients...
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