1 Cytomegalovirus 2 Human Herpesviruses 6 and 7 Keywords: betaherpesviruses-cytomegalovirus, human herpesviruses 6 and 7; cytomegalovirus; patients at risk for acute CMV disease-newborn infants infected in utero, patients with AIDS; risk factors for infection-organ transplantation from infected donor ...
Human herpesvirus (HHV)-7 is a ubiquitous virus that infects > 96% of adults. We show that HHV-7 impairs -microglobulin and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I and II expression in lymphoid cells in vitro. Accordingly, infected cells were more sensitive to peripheral blood natural cytotoxic...