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What viruses live in Humans?
What viruses live in Humans?
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Virus:
- Viruses are tiny and simpler microbes than bacteria.
- Viruses are ultramicroscopic and these are only visible under an electron microscope.
- Viruses are obligate parasites that cannot live on their own.
- Viruses require a living medium to multiply because they cannot multiply on their own.
- Viruses consist of genetic material (DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat of protein called a capsid.
- Viruses are responsible for causing many dreadful diseases in plants, animals, and humans.
- The role of the virus is to deliver its genome to the host.
Viruses that live in humans are:
- Herpesviruses
- Anelloviruses
- Papillomaviruses
- Adenovirus
- HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
- Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C
- Parvovirus B19
- Influenza virus
Virus:
- Viruses are tiny and simpler microbes than bacteria.
- Viruses are ultramicroscopic and these are only visible under an electron microscope.
- Viruses are obligate parasites that cannot live on their own.
- Viruses require a living medium to multiply because they cannot multiply on their own.
- Viruses consist of genetic material (DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat of protein called a capsid.
- Viruses are responsible for causing many dreadful diseases in plants, animals, and humans.
- The role of the virus is to deliver its genome to the host.
Viruses that live in humans are:
- Herpesviruses
- Anelloviruses
- Papillomaviruses
- Adenovirus
- HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
- Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C
- Parvovirus B19
- Influenza virus
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