Mar 6
Deltaviruses Use a Trojan Horse Method to Spread
Deltaviruses employ a “viral Trojan Horse” strategy to spread to new cells in different tissues. Image credit:©iStock.com, Rost-9D Viruses are crafty and can employ different strategies to spread. One approach involves a virus relying on another “helper” virus to infect. A classic example is hepatitis delta virus (HDV), which hijacks hepatitis B virus surface glycoproteins to enter cells. In…