Viruses in camouflage

Kirsten Sandvig and Bo van Deurs
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Kirsten Sandvig: Kirsten Sandvig is in the Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Montebello, 0310 Oslo, Norway. ksandvig@radium.uio.no
Bo van Deurs: Bo van Deurs is at the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, The Panum Building, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark. bvd@sund.ku.dk

Nature, 2008, vol. 453, issue 7194, 466-467

Abstract: The vaccinia virus acts like a Trojan Horse to enter its host cells: it envelops itself in the membrane of a dying cell, and is then taken up by healthy cells.

Date: 2008
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