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Characterization of cytomegalovirus isolates from patients with AIDS by DNA restriction analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

D. L. Taylor ,
D. Taylor-Robinson ,
D. J. Jeffries  and
A. S. Tyms
D. L. Taylor
Affiliation:
Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3UJ
D. Taylor-Robinson
Affiliation:
Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3UJ
D. J. Jeffries
Affiliation:
Division of Virology, Departmentof Medical Microbiology, St Mary'sHospital Medical School, Paddington, London W2 1PG
A. S. Tyms
Affiliation:
Division of Virology, Departmentof Medical Microbiology, St Mary'sHospital Medical School, Paddington, London W2 1PG
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Thirty-seven isolates of cytomegalovirus (CMV) were obtained from a group of 20 promiscuous homosexual men, either suffering from the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) at the time of CMV isolation, or who developed AIDS subsequently. The isolates of CMV were characterized by the method of DNA restriction analysis. All epidemiologically unrelated strains of CMV exhibited different fragment migration patterns and no one strain appeared to be associated with AIDS or any particular disease pattern in these patients.

Sequential isolates of CMV were obtained from nine patients in the study group either from different sites at the same time or from the same site on different dates. In the case of seven of the men, viruses with minor differences in restriction profile were obtained, possiblyrepresenting sub-populations of an endogenous strain of CMV. In two of the patients, reinfection with different strains was apparent. We conclude that reinfections with CMV in AIDS patients can occur, but the isolation of strains exhibiting major differences in genome structure seen by restriction enzyme analysis was uncommon.

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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 101 , Issue 3 , December 1988 , pp. 483 - 494
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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