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Latency versus persistence or intermittent recurrences: evidence for a latent state of murine cytomegalovirus in the lungs
1 Apr 1997
Abstract excerpt
The state of cytomegalovirus (CMV) after the resolution of acute infection is an unsolved problem in CMV research. While the term "latency" is in general use to indicate the maintenance of the viral genome, a formal exclusion of low-level persistent productive infection depends on the sensitivity of the assay for detecting infectious virus. We have improved the method for detecting infectivity by combining...
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