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Virus-Host Interactions

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<strong>Virus</strong>es• Infectious pathogens• Non-cellular• Not active outside the cell• Obligate parasites– Small piece of nucleic acids surrounded by aprotein coat– Depend on host’s machinery to reproduce• Infect all types of living organisms, butmost infect only one type of host

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