title: Selective chromosomal damage caused by human cytomegalovirus.
abstract: The effect of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) on human foetal cell chromosomes was investigated. Cultures of foetal skin fibroblasts were infected with human CMV (AD-169 strain) and their chromosomes analysed at intervals. The distribution of chromosomal abnormalities was independent of chromosome length.
mesh_terms: D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D003587:Cytomegalovirus / Q000502:physiology*; D005347:Fibroblasts; D006801:Humans