Latency and reactivation of human cytomegalovirus.

@article{Sissons2002LatencyAR,
  title={Latency and reactivation of human cytomegalovirus.},
  author={J. G. Sissons and Mark D Bain and Mark R. Wills},
  journal={The Journal of infection},
  year={2002},
  volume={44 2},
  pages={
          73-7
        }
}
The sequence analysis of herpesviruses suggests they have been evolving with their individual vertebrate hosts for millions of years, and their divergence parallels that of the hosts they infect. Given this time they have been learning to live with their individual hosts, it is not surprising that they have become extremely well adapted to doing so without causing much in the way of obvious disease. A key feature of their strategy for persisting in the host is the ability of all herpesviruses… 
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