What's an Abortive Infection?
A Viral Infection of a Cell in Which the Virus Fails to Replicate. Sometimes Replication-Incompetent Viruses Will Proliferate If a Helper Virus Coinfects the...
A viral infection of a cell in which the virus fails to replicate. Sometimes replication-incompetent viruses will proliferate if a helper virus coinfects the cell. The term abortive transformation is used of cells transformed by a virus that does not integrate into the host genome.
What are abortive infections?
Abortive viral infections are defined as cells that have been infected with a virus but did not produce any progeny virus as a result of the infection. Recent single-cell studies have shown that abortive infection is observed frequently even during infection of susceptible and permissive cell types.
What is an example of a viral infection?
Common examples of contagious viral diseases include the flu, the common cold, HIV, and herpes. Other types of viral diseases spread through other means, such as the bite of an infected insect.
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