Glycoprotein N of Human Cytomegalovirus Protects the Virus from Neutralizing Antibodies

Barbara Kropff; Christiane Burkhardt; Juliane Schott; Jens Nentwich; Tanja Fisch; William Britt; Michael Mach

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002999

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Glycoprotein N of Human Cytomegalovirus Protects the Virus from Neutralizing Antibodies

Barbara Kropff ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara Kropff, Christiane Burkhardt

Affiliation Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Christiane Burkhardt ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara Kropff, Christiane Burkhardt

Current address: Institute of Experimental Immunology, EUROIMMUN, Lübeck, Germany

Affiliation Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Juliane Schott,

Current address: Institute of Experimental Hematology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Affiliation Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Jens Nentwich,

Current address: Medizinische Klinik 4, Klinikum Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

Affiliation Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Tanja Fisch,

Current address: Amgen Research, Regensburg, Germany

Affiliation Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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William Britt,

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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Michael Mach

* E-mail: mlmach@viro.med.uni-erlangen.de

Affiliation Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Glycoprotein N of Human Cytomegalovirus Protects the Virus from Neutralizing Antibodies

Barbara Kropff,
Christiane Burkhardt,
Juliane Schott,
Jens Nentwich,
Tanja Fisch,
William Britt,
Michael Mach

Published: October 25, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002999

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