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Microbiology · Chapter 5

How a Virus Replicates

A virus can’t reproduce on its own — it must break into a living cell and turn it into a virus factory. Step through the five stages of the replication cycle, and watch where antiviral drugs cut in.

The replication cycle

The five stagespress Next to begin
Genome uncoated?—
Copies made?—
Virions released?—