Direct evidence of abortive lytic infection-mediated establishment of Epstein-Barr virus latency during B-cell infection
T. Inagaki, Y. Sato, J. Ito, M. Takaki, Y. Okuno, M. Yaguchi, H. M. A. A. Masud, T. Watanabe, K. Sato, S. Iwami, T. Murata, H. Kimura
The paper tracks EBV infection in B-cells using fate mapping and RNA-seq, showing abortive lytic infection precedes latency.
bioRxiv · Mar 23, 2020Microbiology