Virology lecture #22: Evolution

4 Comments / By Vincent Racaniello / 10 May 2010

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Maggie Farhat
15 May 2010 at 10:14 pm

Why doesn't HIV form plaques in any types of cells?
profvrr
18 May 2010 at 4:48 pm

I'm not sure that anyone has tried very hard to develop a plaque
assay. The virus is cytopathic, yet the relevant cells for infection
are lymphocytes, which don't adhere to plastic dishes. Therefore
developing a plaque assay would not be straightforward.
gsgs
19 May 2010 at 6:44 am

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2…
The researchers extracted white blood cells from all the subjects and exposed them to HIV in a culture dish. They reported in the journal BMC Immunology that HIV replication was slowed by about 80% in the cells from those who had received smallpox vaccination.
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17 November 2011 at 9:18 pm

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