16^th International Virology Summit

Viral Pathogenesis & Latency,Virulence

Viral Pathogenesis is the method of causing disease in their target hosts by biological viruses. Replication,dispersal and shedding are the mechanisms of action in viral pathogenesis.

Virulence  is the ability of producing a disease by an infectious agent. It is a measurement of severity of a disease in an organism. Virulence factors are the molecules which gives contribution to the pathogenicity of the organism by colonization,immunosuppression,immunoevasion  by pathogens.

Viral latency is the ability of the  pathogenic virus to remain latent within the cell by the following mechanism of action such as: episomal latency,proviral latency and maintaining latency.