Colonization: Sticking Around

Transmission methods:

  • sneeze, bite, blood, food, sex, etc

Viral Respiratory Tract Infection:

  • attachment to target cell important in initiating infection

  • gets in through the mucosa layer

Hematophagous Arthropods As Breach of Skin Barrier:

  • arthropod creates a breach for virus to get into bloodstream

  • For virus to cause disease it still needs to attach to its target cell

Shape and Structures of Animal Viruses:

  • helical, icosahedral, ± membrane