Thomas Mertens

Adoptive transfer and selective reconstitution of streptamer‐selected cytomegalovirus‐specific CD8+ T cells leads to virus clearance in patients after allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Anita Schmitt, Torsten Tonn, Dirk H. Busch et al. · Transfusion · 2010 · 223 citations

Medicine, Hematology, Immunology +14

The UL97 gene product of human cytomegalovirus is an early-late protein with a nuclear localization but is not a nucleoside kinase

Detlef Michel, Ivica Pavić, Albert Zimmermann et al. · Journal of Virology · 1996 · 110 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +13

Ganciclovir/Valganciclovir Prophylaxis Decreases Cytomegalovirus-Related Events and Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome after Lung Transplantation

Corinne Chmiel, Rudolf Speich, Markus J. Hofer et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2008 · 99 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Pharmacotherapy +16

Constitutive Signaling of the Human Cytomegalovirus-encoded Receptor UL33 Differs from That of Its Rat Cytomegalovirus Homolog R33 by Promiscuous Activation of G Proteins of the Gq, Gi, and Gs Classes

Paola Casarosa, Yvonne K. Gruijthuijsen, Detlef Michel et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2003 · 94 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +16

Antibody and cytotoxic T-cell responses to soluble hepatitis B virus (HBV) S antigen in mice: implication for the pathogenesis of HBV-induced hepatitis

Reinhold Schirmbeck, Karl Melber, Thomas Mertens et al. · Journal of Virology · 1994 · 91 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Immunology, Infectious Diseases +17