title: Immunological hiding of herpesvirus-infected cells.
abstract: Over the past years, numerous research groups have discovered various strategies that herpesviruses use to hide themselves from recognition by the immune system of their hosts. The current review gives a summary of this research, with emphasis on the mechanisms by which herpesvirus-infected cells escape from elimination by complement, phagocytes, cytotoxic T-lymphocytes and/or natural killer cells.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Favoreel
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Nauwynck
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Pensaert
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016525:Antigenic Modulation; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000276:immunology* / Q000821:virology; D010587:Phagocytosis / Q000276:immunology; D051381:Rats; D018139:Simplexvirus / Q000276:immunology*; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology