Word: cytomegalovirus
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Weller, who retired from his Harvard teaching responsibilities in 1980, went on to isolate and grow varicella-zoster viruses for chicken pox and shingles and cytomegalovirus, a member of the herpesvirus family that can cause birth defects. With the urine sample of his 10-year-old son Robert A. Weller, who developed a severe case of the measles, Weller and his Harvard colleague, Franklin A. Neva, identified the virus for rubella, or German measles...
Researchers are hunting for clues to why one person develops the disease while others merely harbor the virus. Some investigators suspect that additional viral infections may play a role as accomplices or triggers. The main suspects: Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus (both members of the herpes family) and the virus that causes hepatitis B. The difficulty, says Lange, comes in determining whether such viruses are in fact co-agents of AIDS or merely tagalong infections...