TABLE 2.

Primers used in this study

Primer	Assay(s)	HCMV sequence (nt)a	Reference
176	RT-PCR	52251-52271	41
179	RT-PCR	50949-50968	41
226	RT-PCR, TaqMan	52240-52257	This paper
227	RT-PCR, TaqMan	50963-50979	This paper
228	RT-PCR, TaqMan	50998-51108	This paper
234	Cloning	50998-51010-T10	This paper
239	RT-PCR, TaqMan	52234-52249	41
240	RT-PCR, TaqMan	52165-52171/GC/51119-51132	41
241	RT-PCR, TaqMan	282-297b	This paper
243	RT-PCR, TaqMan	392-413b	This paper
265	TaqMan	51095-51116	This paper

^aHCMV genome (EMBL accession no. X17403).

^bβ-gal plasmid (GenBank accession no. AY178451).