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The numbers of p52 positive cells was also observed to decrease with respect to time, perhaps indicating an abortive infection may be occurring.
In order to determine if CMV was undergoing an abortive or replicative infection, separate CMV superinfection experiments were performed.
A CMV abortive infection was not determined for the P3HR-1 cells.
The data represented here support the work of others showing that CMV may undergo an abortive infection in B-cells rather than a productive one [ 35 36 46 47 48 ] .
This deficiency might be what Tony Lake had in mind when, in the course of his abortive confirmation hearings, he remarked that the CIA's "pool of talent, particularly in languages and cultural knowledge, is getting very thin."