RT Book, Section
A1 Moscona, Anne
A1 Gershon, Anne A.
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 7021226
T1 Chapter 224. Viral Pathogenesis
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7021226
RD 2024/04/24
AB Viruses  can  only  survive  by  entering  and  parasitizing  the  cells  of  a  host.  Because  viruses  cannot  live  independently  of  their  interaction  with  the  parasitized  host  cell,  all  viruses  have  evolved  strategies  for  coexisting  with  cells,  while  these  cells  continue  to  carry  out  physiologic  functions  as  part  of  specific  tissues  or  organs.  It  is  the  complex  interplay  between  viral  and  host  properties  that  determines  the  relationship  that  the  virus  will  experience  with  its  host  in  vivo,  whether  resulting  in  disease  or  not.  The  interplay  between  viral  and  host  features  thus  determines  the  pathogenesis  of  infection.