________ is an example of a virus responsible for an emerging disease: a new illness that suddenly affects significant numbers of individuals in a host population.
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Drugs
________ that interfere with viral infection or replication are called antivirals.
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animal cells
In viruses that infect ________, the dormant state is called latency.
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AIDS
________ is an affliction caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
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Physicians
________ and researchers use the term epidemic (literally,"upon- people) "to describe a disease that rapidly infects many individuals over a widening area.
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CD4
Although ________ is necessary for HIV attachment, the viral genome will not be uncoated unless the virion also binds to a second membrane protein, a co- receptor.
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Helper T cells
________ are crucial to the immune systems responses to invading pathogens.
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HIV
Like other viruses, ________ parasitizes specific types of cells- most notably, the helper T cells of the immune system, which is the bodys defense system against disease.
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Viruses that reverse
transcribe their genome in this way are called retroviruses ("backward-viruses")
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HIV is an example of a virus responsible for an emerging disease
a new illness that suddenly affects significant numbers of individuals in a host population
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lateral gene transfer
picking up genes from one organism and shuttling them to another organism of the same species or even a different species
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epidemic
to describe a disease that rapidly infects many individuals over a widening area
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pandemic
An epidemic of worldwide scope
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co-receptor
the viral genome will not be uncoated unless the virion also binds to a second membrane protein
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antivirals
Drugs that interfere with viral infection or replication
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RNA replicases
function as RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
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reverse transcriptase
the genome transcribed from RNA to DNA by a viral enzyme
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emerging disease
a new illness that suddenly affects significant numbers of individuals in a host population
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Latency
In viruses that infect animal cells, the dormant state is called ___.
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