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Review
. 1998 Aug;1(4):436-41.
doi: 10.1016/s1369-5274(98)80062-3.

Viral persistence: mechanisms and consequences

M B Oldstone  1
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Review

Viral persistence: mechanisms and consequences

M B Oldstone. Curr Opin Microbiol. 1998 Aug.

Abstract

Recent research has brought additional information on how virus products interfere with host cell antigen processing in vitro, new information on the interaction of virus with dendritic cells as a mechanism for alteration of immune responses - especially immunosuppression, and a preliminary proposal that nonretroviral RNA viruses might persist by utilizing host-cell reverse transcriptase to enter a DNA phase of replication.

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