HHV-6

Virus Latently Infects Mononuclear Cells, Not Liver Tissue

Published in Proteomics Weekly, February 22nd, 1999

A variant of human herpesvirus 6 latently infected mononuclear cells, but not liver tissue, researchers reported.

T. Yoshikawa and colleagues performed a study to find whether human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) can cause latent infection of liver tissue ("Human Herpesvirus 6 Latently Infects Mononuclear Cells But Not Liver Tissue," Journal of Clinical Pathology, January 1999;52(1):65-67).

The researchers collected peripheral blood and liver tissue from 25 living related liver transplant recipients at the time of transplantation.

They used an avidin-biotin complex peroxidase method to identify HHV-6 antigen in the liver tissue. To detect...

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