Re: Reason why some of our kids never get sick...? Add on

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I agree that a lytic virus will have serious implications, but there are latent

viruses that can be ignored for years, such as herpes viruses. I was thinking

along that lines...but this superinfection info is very interesting.

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> > >> > Superinfection exclusion is the ability of an established virus

> > >> > infection to interfere with infection by a second virus.

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> > >> > There's infection and then there's superinfection – when a

> > >> > cell already infected by a virus gets a second viral infection. But

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> > >> > viruses don't like to share their cells…. " A virus can

> > >> > interfere with a secondary infection in a variety of ways, " says

> > >> > Rice, head of the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease and the

> > >> > Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor. " It can interfere

> > >> > with how a virus attaches to the cell, its penetration, or its access

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> > >> > the cell's resources. " If both viruses are competing for the

> > >> > same resources in the cell, then the first virus can confiscate them so

> > >> > none are available for the second virus.

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