Virology Lectures 2024 #12: Infection basics

Virus infection of a living host is far more complex than infection of cells in culture in the laboratory. In this lecture we cover fundamental aspects of how viruses enter hosts, spread to and infect different tissues, transmission to new hosts, and how geography and season may affect virus infections.

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[WillNewcomb]

This is BRILLIANT. Just like the very first lecture, this basic Infection video should be compulsory consumption for EVERY health journalist. PLEASE listen, study and learn. If I, as a complete layperson, can comprehend the broad brush strokes that Racaniello paints, SO CAN YOU!

[joaquimmendes]

In the formula for the basic reproductive number, I believe the parameter "c" actually represents the average number of contacts between the infected host and uninfected hosts per unit time.

[swomdebmondal]

Can you please make a whole lecture on SARS-CoV-2 replication, translation, protein. And therapeutic target.

[tekkaraA]

I still.didnt understand the comment on studying families where an infected person is introduced unknowingly. Are these random families that you are already studying. To know maybe the period to infection of the rest

[WillNewcomb]

Infection "basics"??? I wonder if there's something here that I would understand haha!!!

[traianliviudanciu]

May be interferon induce symptoms ?and not only

[FabianArisen]

Hey Vincent, I was spesking to my Molecular Biology lecturer about covid and he said that covid was artificially created and not a "bat virus". He also said that he didn't take any of the jabs and that the components of these vaccines stay in your system for a long time and can remain "dormant" until certain effects arise. I was so motivated to continue on my path in knowing that I wasn't a conspiracy theorist or an antivaxxer. Please let me know what you think.