Pathogenesis from the reactivation of chromosomally integrated human herpesvirus type 6: Facts rather than fiction

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 549-551

  Flamand, Louis ^a  

^a University Laval   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chromosomally integrated HHV 6; Latency; Telomere; Viral reactivation; X SCID

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; DNA SEQUENCE; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS TYPE 6 INFECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; X LINKED SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; COMPLICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRUS ACTIVATION; X-LINKED COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES;

EID: 84905011655     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu326     Document Type: Note

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