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CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 76-+Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00034-08
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Following primary infection, human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) establishes lifelong latency and periodically reactivates without causing symptoms in healthy individuals. In the absence of an adequate host-derived immune response, this fine balance of permitting viral reactivation without causing pathogenesis is disrupted, and HCMV can subsequently cause invasive disease and an array of damaging indirect immunological effects. Over the last decade, our knowledge of the immune response to HCMV infection in healthy virus carriers and diseased individuals has allowed us to translate these findings to develop better diagnostic tools is likely to provide opportunities for better management of patients with HCMV-associated diseases.
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