[momincombatboots]

I was disappointed the article did not discuss the mechanism for this discovery. Is it cell signaling or the way the virus hides from the immune system? I was taught the same, also whatever is being used to inhibit the bug must also be designed to be non- toxic to us when we use it to fight infections.

[MetaThought]

I’d really like to find the research this paper is based on...

[neverdem]

"'In essence, CMV is able to cutoff an infected cell's call for elimination. This allows CMV to overcome this critical immune barrier during re-infection,' explained Klaus Frueh, a senior scientist at the university."

I was disappointed the article did not discuss the mechanism for this discovery. Is it cell signaling or the way the virus hides from the immune system?

My guess is that CMV hides by interference in immune cell signaling somehow.