The fact that the ULb’-positive HCMV strain Merlin was used and primary human foreskin fibroblasts were infected while we used AD169varL and TB40-HCMV infections of MRC-5 and RPE-1 cells, respectively, confirms and generalizes the HCMV-induced TNFR2 upregulation. The gene discussed is TNFRSF1B; the disease is infection.