MGY378H1 Lecture : Lecture notes
1 Feb 2012
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Eiav infectious diseas among hosues before cars, use horses and. Rous chickens in certain flocks had tumours. Model are mouse and avian some oncogenic mouse viruses 1983 - A to e species because of sequence homology categorize according to sequence. Lentiviruses unique because of pathology slow wasting disease all aids like syndromes get infected, might develop acute infection synrome, grows in ystem for years to decades cause wasting disease that ultimately kills you. Induce persistant infection without any clear pathology infected cell look like full of soap suds are not lethal to cell no clear pathology i organism, but establish persistent infection in organism. Various structures viral core lipid envelope has spikes which are glycoproteins of virus. Unique 1- first virus that is diploid one rna or one gene per virion that encodes for one protein two copies that are generally identical of same genetic material. Inside that is viral core, made up of capsid.
