Fibroblasts are an established cell type permissive for cytomegalovirus infection. Here the authors identify a population of fibroblast cells that can support murine cytomegalovirus lytic and latent virus infection in vivo and propose STAT1 as critically involved in murine cytomegalovirus latency.
- Katarzyna M. Sitnik
- Fran Krstanović
- Luka Čičin-Šain
