Cytomegalovirus in the parotid gland of a slow loris, Nyctecibus coucang.
Sporadic enlarged cells with both nuclear and cytoplasmic viruses were found in the intralobular ducts of the parotid salivary gland of an adult female slow loris; these ducts are homologous to striated ducts in the salivary glands of other primates. The duct cell nuclei contained reticular inclusions and virions in all stages of development. Cytoplasmic virions were, in almost every case, confined to vacuoles; only a very few were free in the cytosol. The viruses conformed in ultrastructure to that of cytomegaloviruses described in other species. This may be the first observation by electron microscopy of in situ cytomegaloviruses in the salivary glands of a nonhuman primate.
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D000818:Animals; D003587:Cytomegalovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005260:Female; D008142:Lorisidae / Q000821:virology*; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D010306:Parotid Gland / Q000648:ultrastructure / Q000821:virology*