Characterisation of virulence functions encoded by human cytomegalovirus

HCMV is the largest human virus characterised to date, encoding approximately 165 open reading frames (ORFs). Due to many years of serial passage, laboratory adapted strains of HCMV, such as strain AD 169, have lost a 13-15kb region of genome, designated UUb', compared with HCMV clinical strain...

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Main Author: Armstrong, Melanie
Published: Cardiff University 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.584183