A review on cytomegalovirus causing cancer in humans

Abstract

Cytomegalovirus is a kind of herpes virus, HHV-5. It primarily causes congenital infections and the fetal abnormalities during pregnancies. Sometimes, very serious complications and consequences may occur. As human cytomegalovirus is a ubiquitous virus occurring worldwide in nature their infections are very common in human. It has got lifelong latency in human with their reactivation causing cancer in future. The present paper deals with the study of causes and consequences of disease complex and the development of cancer by primary infection and the reactivation of HCMV in human.