Poxvirus Flashcards
In EM they appear?
Brickshaped or ellipsoid
Largest virus
Pox
Replication takes place in
Cytoplasm
Released thru?
Lysis ( envelope acquired in the cytoplasm)
Etiologic agent of small pox
Variola
Dna is rich in whay bases?
AT
Used for smallpox vaccines
Vaccinia
Describe virion of pox
Core and lateral bodies;
Ridges;
Oval/brickshaped
Has low GC content except for
ParaPoxvirus
This step requires newly synthesiZed virus
Uncoating
Primary hosts are humans
Variol
Vaccinia
Molluscum
Difference of variola and vaccinia
Variola has NARROW host range
Similarities of variola and vaccinia
Bth grow on culture (egg, animal)
Similar nucleotide
______ infection does not occur in variola
Asymptatic
Transmision of variola
Resp droplet
Types of variola major
OMFH Ordinary Modified Flat Hemorrhagic
What do you call the intracytoplasmic inclusion body of variola?
Guarneri bodies
Primary viremia occurs in variola where?
Lymph nodes ( spleen, BM, liver…)