Infectivity

... or cell for replication is not per se "dormant." Viral dormancy (or latency) is more commonly used to describe the presence of viral infectivity in a host without causng an obvious disease. Example would be herpes zoster remaining in he host in absence of apparent diease after chickenpox ...

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... Rao, A. L. N. & Hall, T. C. (1993). Recombination and polymerase error CFEC Review: Recombination in RNA viruses facilitate restoration of infectivity in brome mosaic virus. Journal of Virology 67, 969±979. Revers, F., Le Gall, O., Candresse, T., Le Romancer, M. & Dunez, J. (1996). ...

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... more than BS as an answer. Bottom line is that there simply isn't alot of data on the mechanism of inactivation. Just that HIV preps do lose infectivity. Evolution doesn't proceed with a "reason" in mind. I've not seen UV as a mechansim for microbiological inactivation expect for ...

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... the Rio Negro is the source of drinking water for the population living around it, without there being widespread infection, indicates the low infectivity of this organism. The lack of frequent human infection would be expected to select against the retention of purely pathogenesis-related ...

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... did. Came up with this: A direct relationship between the partitioning of the pathogenic prion protein and transmissible spongiform encephalopathy infectivity during the purification of plasma proteins . so, look....this had better not relate to the P kinases....b/c if it does (and I think this ...

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