…of the state. Specimens from 19 of the patients were available and tested for poliovirus, aroboviruses, herpesviruses, parechoviruses, adenoviruses, rabies virus, influenza virus, metapneumovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza viruses, Mycoplasma…
…that looks like a virus particle. The viruses in Lori’s beads are spherical with projections that could be glycoproteins, or simply capsid subunits. Some of the virus particles represent simple…
…poliovirus derived from OPV. Because OPV has not been used in the US since 2000 and in Canada since 1995-96, the infecting virus was either imported from another country, where…
…parasites, and are rarely related to influenza. Why would influenza virus infection cause gastrointestinal symptoms? In humans, there is no evidence that the virus replicates in the intestine. Some avian…
…membrane vesicles are precursors of what we know today as virus particles. It is thought that viruses originated from selfish genetic elements such as plasmids and transposons when these nucleic…
…mind. First, he devised a method for producing high-yielding recombinant vaccine strains. The seasonal influenza virus strains often do not multiply well in embryonated eggs; he solved this problem by…
