ANP 1106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Infection Control, Shingles, Blood Film

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anatomy and Physiology
• Course: ANP 1106
• Professor: Joanne Savory

Document Summary

Not truly a living cell. (simple, and require a living cell as a host to survive multiply ect. ) When you want to culture them, you have to use tissue cultures or cell cultures because they are living. They do not contain both dna or rna. Extremely small, therefore you need a different kind of microscope. Have to be efficient, (5 key steps helping get to an appropriate) (replication) 1. Adsorption (virus forcing itself into the cell) very specific reaction. It requires something on the surface to bind. Or sometimes looking for the viruses is hard. Therefore looking for antibody increase should be present (titer)