A gammaherpesviral internal repeat contributes to latency amplification.

BACKGROUND: Gammaherpesviruses cause important infections of humans, in particular in immunocompromised patients. The genomes of gammaherpesviruses contain variable numbers of internal repeats whose precise role for in vivo pathogenesis is not well understood. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We used...

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Main Authors: Nagendra N Thakur, Susanne El-Gogo, Beatrix Steer, Klaus Freimüller, Andreas Waha, Heiko Adler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1939874?pdf=render