Portal:Viruses/Did you know/26




 * ...that agnoprotein (pictured) is found in two polyomaviruses that can cause human disease, JC virus and BK virus?
 * ...that the immunology professor Mary Collins studies ways to use genetically engineered HIV as a vaccine?
 * ...that the Alternanthera mosaic virus, a type of Potexvirus, has been misdiagnosed as the closely related Papaya mosaic virus?
 * ...that though once thought to be sterile, the uterine microbiome contains at least 14 commensal microorganisms in healthy women?
 * ...that a form of encephalitis that killed three people is believed to have been caused by a virus carried by their pet variegated squirrels?