How to Use cytomegalovirus in a Sentence

cytomegalovirus

noun

• By the time humans reach old age, up to a quarter of our killer T cells are devoted to fighting human cytomegalovirus.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
• In a small percentage of patients, mono can be caused by other viruses, such as cytomegalovirus.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2018
• The scientists looked at cells infected with cytomegalovirus, a common cause of birth defects.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2016
• Most cytomegaloviruses don’t cause disease, and each strain has evolved to infect only one species, so the risk of a cytomegalovirus vaccine jumping between species is very low.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2020
• As of right now, there are no medications that can prevent a cytomegalovirus infection.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 20 Oct. 2021
• In work that has not yet been published, Zhu’s team loaded up the cytomegalovirus with anti-aging gene targets, including telomerase.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 3 May 2021
• Unlike human cytomegalovirus, the coronavirus doesn’t seem capable of hiding inside our bodies in the same way for decades.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
• Both are based on a herpes virus – cytomegalovirus – common in Americans and in almost everyone in the developing world.
  — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• Viruses lurking in the virome may also reactivate, such as Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus.
  — David Pride, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2020
• But some, like cytomegalovirus and rubella, are known to cross and cause severe neurodevelopmental problems.
  — Sara Reardon Reprints, STAT, 29 Apr. 2021
• Congratulations for spotlighting CMV (cytomegalovirus), a disease that can ruin the life of a fetus and baby.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2017
• The technology has been studied and tested for decades, including in the development of vaccines for flu, Zika, rabies and cytomegalovirus.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2021
• As with her first outbreak of cytomegalovirus symptoms, isolation and illness proved transformative.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 2 May 2023
• But nobody — not her obstetrician, nor her midwife — mentioned cytomegalovirus.
  — Catherine Saint Louis, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2016
• And since cytomegalovirus infections are chronic, the resulting immune deficits can go on indefinitely.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2020
• Scientists are already testing them against currently un-vaccinable viruses such as Zika or cytomegalovirus and trying to make improved versions of existing vaccines, such as for the flu.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2020
• Viruses can infect and damage a developing baby's brain — Zika is the most notorious now, but rubella and cytomegalovirus can also cause severe birth defects.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 13 June 2017
• Other viruses, like cytomegalovirus, Zika, and rubella, can seriously harm babies in the womb—sometimes in ways that are not immediately evident at birth.
  — Rachel Pearson, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2020
• Notwithstanding, the authors do recommend viral monitoring of cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus that many carry but does not impact healthy people.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Moderna’s only current product is its Covid-19 vaccine, but the company is developing other vaccines against Zika, influenza, cytomegalovirus and other pathogens that could be made at the plant and meet demand in Africa.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• Nichols, an administrator of a long-Covid support group, told me that reactivation of Epstein-Barr, cytomegalovirus and other herpesviruses occurs in a small but significant percentage of long-haulers on the site.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• Sometimes babies infected in the womb with viruses like rubella or cytomegalovirus appear normal at birth, but later turn out to have serious problems with hearing, vision or learning, and officials want to know if Zika carries the same risks.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 28 Oct. 2016
• About 4 percent of the fetuses tested had evidence of other infections that can cause microcephaly, such as toxoplasmosis, herpes, cytomegalovirus or syphilis.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 10 Dec. 2016
• Moderna recently began phase 3 trials for a cytomegalovirus vaccine and a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine.
  — Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2022
• These infections include toxoplasmosis, syphilis, rubella, cytomegalovirus and herpes.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2015

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