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Viruses in camouflage

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  • Kirsten Sandvig

    (Kirsten Sandvig is in the Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Montebello, 0310 Oslo, Norway. ksandvig@radium.uio.no)

  • Bo van Deurs

    (Bo van Deurs is at the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, The Panum Building, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark. bvd@sund.ku.dk)

Abstract

The vaccinia virus acts like a Trojan Horse to enter its host cells: it envelops itself in the membrane of a dying cell, and is then taken up by healthy cells.

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  • Kirsten Sandvig & Bo van Deurs, 2008. "Viruses in camouflage," Nature, Nature, vol. 453(7194), pages 466-467, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:453:y:2008:i:7194:d:10.1038_453466a
    DOI: 10.1038/453466a
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