Systemic hematogenous maintenance of memory inflation by MCMV infection.

Several low-grade persistent viral infections induce and sustain very large numbers of virus-specific effector T cells. This was first described as a response to cytomegalovirus (CMV), a herpesvirus that establishes a life-long persistent/latent infection, and sustains the largest known effector T c...

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Main Authors: Corinne J Smith, Holly Turula, Christopher M Snyder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-07-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4081724?pdf=render