New mechanistic insights of the pathogenicity of high-risk cytomegalovirus (CMV) strains derived from breast cancer: Hope for new cancer therapy options

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Unit of Microbial Pathogenesis, Karolinska Institutet, and Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; MediCity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, and Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. Electronic address: cecilia.naucler@ki.se.

Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér. EBioMedicine. 2022 Jul.

. 2022 Jul:81:104103.

doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104103. Epub 2022 Jun 13.

¹ Department of Medicine, Unit of Microbial Pathogenesis, Karolinska Institutet, and Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; MediCity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, and Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. Electronic address: cecilia.naucler@ki.se.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of interests The author holds a patent to identify and treat a CMV strain associated with cancer.

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