BSC 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dengue Virus, Coinfection, Sexually Transmitted Infection
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What are common vectors for flaviviruses such as wnv, yfv, and dengue virus? mosquitos. Acute infection an infection that is typically resolved quickly and survivors gain immunity to subsequent infections. Chronic infection infection is not resolved by the immune system and disease lasts for a lifetime unless treated with drugs. ____ _____ and ____ ____ can influence disease incidence and burden host genetics; geographic factors. Relationship between an oncogenic virus and cancer development. Prion not a virus, but highly infectious, disease causing, and subcellular. Syncytium a giant cell with multiple nuclei, resulted from cell-cell fusion between hiv infected cells and uninfected. Topical microbicides preparations that are applied either vaginally and/or rectally to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. Zoonotic transfer from non-human primates; hunters; simian immunodeficiency virus (siv) American scientists believe they discovered hiv because when bru was used to infect cell lines, the second virus that bru was infected with (hiv-1 lai) grew in the t-cell lines and took over.
