Review of sero-prevalence of human cytomegalovirus in Iraq
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Intranuclear inclusionsof cytomegalovirus infections were first noticed in 1881 by Ribbert5 who thought they represented protozoa, He saw large cells in sections of the kidney of a luetic stillborn and in the parotid gland of children.5 In 1907 Lòwenstein6 found such cells in the parotid glands of 4 out of 30 infants. These appear to be the first descriptions of typical cytomegalic cells with intranuclear inclusions.6 In 1950 Wyatt et al.7 suggested the name, “generalized cytomegalic inclusion disease (CID)”, although its viral etiology was not yet known.7 In 1953 Minder8 first observed the virus through electron microscopy 199 nm particles, in the clear halo around the intranuclear inclusion of pancreatic cells in a case of CID.8 In 1970 Weller9 named the virus as “cytomegalovirus”.9
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