| investigation of the susceptibility of human cell lines to bovine herpesvirus 4 infection: demonstration that human cells can support a nonpermissive persistent infection which protects them against tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced apoptosis. | bovine herpesvirus 4 (bohv-4) is a gammaherpesvirus that has a worldwide distribution in the population of cattle. many factors make human contamination by bohv-4 likely to occur. in this study, we performed in vitro experiments to assess the risk and the consequences of human infection by bohv-4. first, by using a recombinant bohv-4 strain expressing enhanced green fluorescent protein under the control of the human cytomegalovirus immediate-early gene promoter, we tested 21 human cell lines for ... | 2004 | 14963130 |