Early-life environment influencing susceptibility to cytomegalovirus infection: Evidence from the Leiden Longevity Study and the Longitudinal Study of Aging Danish Twins

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 835-841

  Mortensen, L H ^a   Maier, A B ^b   Slagbom, P E ^b   Pawelec, G ^c   Derhovanessian, E ^c   Petersen, I ^a   Jahn, G ^c   Westendorp, R G J ^b   Christensen, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; epidemiology; genetics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LIFE EVENT; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PROGENY; SEROPREVALENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DENMARK; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NETHERLANDS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TWINS;

EID: 84859328250     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811001397     Document Type: Article

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