Viral Latency (KSHV)

Scientists Discover How Viruses Hide Inside Human Cells

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 22nd, 1999

University of Michigan scientists have discovered how some viruses can hide inside the nucleus of human cells for long periods of time - without producing symptoms or triggering an immune response - by attaching to host cell chromosomes.

The virus survives by going dormant until a weakened immune system allows infected cells to begin multiplying wildly again.

In an article to be published in the November 25, 1999, issue of Virology, Erle Robertson and Murray Cotter describe a series of experiments with Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus or KSHV - a human virus associated with a type of cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma. In these studies, U-M...

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