Detection of adenovirus DNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells by polymerase chain reaction assay

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Adenovirus can establish persistent infections which may reactivate and cause disease in immunocompromised hosts. Lymphocytes have been postulated to serve as a site of adenoviral persistence based upon the ability to isolate adenovirus from tonsils and to detect adenovirus DNA by Southern blot hybridization in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). To test this hypothesis, a more sensitive and specific...

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