PCR of CMV in Tissue Culture

[Ed Rybicki]

> Hi.  I'd like to PCR a piece of CMV DNA from CMV-infected tissue

...and I'll bet you cucumber mosaic virus was called CMV before
cytomegalovirus was...!  And you would have to do a cDNA synthesis first,
just like we do.... (sorry).

For that matter, I'll bet alfalfa mosaic virus preceded avian
myeloblastosis virus as the owner of AMV - pity the two groups of
virologists don't take much account of each other's acronyms, isn't it?

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