Yong-Qiang Wang

Immune Evasion by CMV and BK Virus: Lurking Viruses Waiting for the Right Moment to Deliver a Fatal Blow to Individuals With Compromised Immunity

Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) and BK polyomavirus are archetypal latent DNA viruses that establish lifelong persistence and cause severe disease upon reactivation in immunocompromised hosts. Although they differ markedly in virion architecture, genome size, and coding capacity, both viruses converge on a shared biologica...