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Nonprofessional Phagocytosis Can Facilitate Herpesvirus Entry into Ocular Cells

Phagocytosis is a major mechanism by which the mediators of innate immunity thwart microbial infections. Here we demonstrate that human herpesviruses may have evolved a common mechanism to exploit a phagocytosis-like entrapment to gain entry into ocular cells. While herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) ca...

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Autores principales: Tiwari, Vaibhav, Shukla, Deepak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3312246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22481969
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/651691