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THE persistence in a latent state of the herpes simplex virus in neuronal cells1–3 and of the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) in lymphoblastoid cells4,5 has been documented. Cytomegaloviruses (CMVs) have been isolated in the past from leukocytes of congenitally infected babies6 and found in peripheral leukocytes by in situ RNA–DNA cytohybridisation (C. H. Huang, P. Neiman and J. S. Pagano, unpublished data). EBV-positive lymphoblastoid cell lines have been established from three of 12 patients with CMV mononucleosis7,8 but the possible persistence of CMVs in these lines was not documented. We have now found an unexpressed CMV genome in an EBV-positive lymphoblastoid cell line.
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JONCAS, J., MENEZES, J. & HUANG, E. Persistence of CMV genome in lymphoid cells after congenital infection. Nature 258, 432–434 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258432a0
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