Virus movements on the plasma membrane support infection and transmission between cells.

How viruses are transmitted across the mucosal epithelia of the respiratory, digestive, or excretory tracts, and how they spread from cell to cell and cause systemic infections, is incompletely understood. Recent advances from single virus tracking experiments have revealed conserved patterns of vir...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christoph J Burckhardt, Urs F Greber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-11-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2777510?pdf=render