Human Cytomegalovirus

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shenk, Thomas E. (Editor), Stinski, Mark F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 325
• Subjects: Medicine.; Virology.; Biomedicine.

The earliest observation of cytomegalovirus (CMV) interactions with the host cell was owl eye cytopathology in various tissues. It was recognized in the early 1970s that human CMV caused in utero infections resulting in congenital brain damage and other sensory neurological complications. Events of...