Polio virus figure 2 (IMAGE)

Umea University

Polio virus figure 2

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When new virus particles are prepared for release in small packets (called vesicles), the virus makes sure that only those virus particles that have been loaded with the virus genome, and thus become infectious, are packaged. Several examples of that process are shown (infectious particles in red, vesicles in blue).

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Selma Dahmane, Umeå University, Sweden

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