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SUBMITTER: Arcangeletti MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6163388 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arcangeletti Maria-Cristina MC Maccari Clara C Vescovini Rosanna R Volpi Riccardo R Giuggioli Dilia D Sighinolfi Gianluca G De Conto Flora F Chezzi Carlo C Calderaro Adriana A Ferri Clodoveo C
Viruses 20180918 9
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a highly prevalent opportunistic agent in the world population, which persists as a latent virus after a primary infection. Besides the well-established role of this agent causing severe diseases in immunocompromised individuals, more recently, HCMV has been evoked as a possible factor contributing to the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as systemic sclerosis (SSc). The interplay between HCMV and immune surveillance is supposed to become unbalanced in SSc ...[more]