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| Herpes viruses are in the latent phase where? |
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| A complete change in NA or HA or both in the orthomyxovirdae virus is known as? |
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| antigenic shift and results in pandemic flus |
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| A small change in NA or HA in the orthomyxovirdae virus is known as? |
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| antigenic drift and results in epidemic flus |
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-Severe liver and brain disease
in children when given aspirin for influenza or varicella (chicken pox) |
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| What does prodromal mean and what are some of its implications in infection? |
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| It is the symptom(s) indicating the beginning of a disease state. In many viral infections, this is the most infective period, and person usually doesn't realize they are infected yet. |
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| positive Sense RNA in a virus means... |
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| RNA is just like mRNA , so when it enters the host it can be translated by host's ribosomes into protein |
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| Negative sense RNA viruses mean what... |
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-Need to be transcribed into + sense RNA
-MUST carry RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in the capsid, human cells lack this specific RNA polymerase |
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