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Professor Michael Weekes
Innate immune evasion by intracellular pathogens
General audience summary:
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) affects ~1/100 pregnancies and is the leading infectious cause of deafness and intellectual disability in children, and the most significant infectious cause of birth defects in the global North. There are only three anti-HCMV drugs; two of them have treatment-limiting side effects and all exhibit problematic drug resistance.
