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Overview of Picornavirus Characteristics by Beatrice Salgado is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Picornavirus includes small non-enveloped viruses with positive-sense RNA genomes that cause a variety of diseases in humans. They have an icosahedral capsid made of 60 subunits and include important pathogens like poliovirus, coxsackievirus, rhinovirus, and enterovirus. Picornaviruses have a replication cycle of 5-10 hours where the viral RNA is released into the host cell and hijacks the cell
- Author
- Beatrice Salgado
- Language
- EN