Chapter 17, Problem 68TQ

Summary Introduction

To review:

The phenomenon of new diseases, formed or exacerbating of existing pathologies, as a result of the incorporation of the host genome into the viral structure during the infective process.

Introduction:

A virus is an obligate intracellular parasite. It is known to be a nonliving entity, when present in the environment outside its host. Once it infects the host, it becomes a living organism. There is a specific type of host for a particular virus. The virus uses the metabolic machinery of the host to produce multiple copies of itself, or virions.