Chapter 8.10, Problem 2MQ

Summary Introduction

The animal viruses can catalyze the infection in the host cells in the form of four different outcomes. Different animal viruses have different consequences of viral infection. This includes virulent infection, latent infection, persistent infection and transformation. Most of the animal viruses degrade the host cell, but some of the viruses convert the host cell into a tumor cell. These are the possible effects which the animal viruses have on the host cells which they infect.