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ReviewCell host & microbe2010

Viral latency and its regulation: lessons from the gamma-herpesviruses.

Samuel H Speck, Don Ganem

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Review in Cell host & microbe, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 204 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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204citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

204 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  14. Molecular detection and evaluation of bovine gammaherpesvirus 6 (BoGHV6) in semen and genital tract of bulls from Mato Grosso State, Brazil.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2026
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144 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Samuel H SpeckEmory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Don Ganem

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Latency is a state of cryptic viral infection associated with genomic persistence and highly restricted gene expression. Its hallmark is reversibility: under appropriate circumstances, expression of the entire viral genome can be induced, resulting in the production of infectious progeny. Among the small number of virus families capable of authentic latency, the herpesviruses stand out for their ability to produce such infections in every infected individual and for being completely dependent upon latency as a mode of persistence. Here, we review the molecular basis of latency, with special attention to the gamma-herpesviruses, in which the understanding of this process is most advanced.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, ViralVirus LatencyAnimalsGammaherpesvirinaeHerpesviridae InfectionsHumansViral ProteinsVirus ReplicationViral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID20638646
PMCPMC2914632

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