Viral disease
A viral infection (or viral disease, or infectious disease) occurs when a living thing's body is entered by disease-causing viruses. Virus particles, also called virions, attach to and enter cells in order to make more virus particles.[1]
Structural characteristics
Virus species in the same family have many things in common, such as type, shape and infection method.
Viral Disease Media
Virions of some of the most common human viruses with their relative size. Nucleic acids are not to scale. SARS stands for SARS-CoV-1 or COVID-19, variola viruses for smallpox.
References
- ↑ Taylor, M.P.. Alphaherpesvirus axon-to-cell spread involves limited virion transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (42) (2012)PNAS. p. 17046–17051. doi:10.1073/pnas.1212926109.