Slow Viruses
Slow viruses — long incubation, slowly progressive disease: HIV, prions, and SSPE (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis — a late, fatal complication of measles years after infection)
What our notes say
- Slow viruses — long incubation, slowly progressive disease: HIV, prions, and SSPE (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis — a late, fatal complication of measles years after infection) (Medical Virology Semester 3 Crash Revision — Notes)
- Slow viruses / slow infections: conventional viruses but with very long incubation and progressive course (e.g. measles virus causing SSPE years later) (Essential Medical Virology: Structure, Classification & Replication — Notes)
- Basic Virology, Viral Replication, Prions & Slow Viruses, Poxviruses & VZV (EXAM: Basic Virology, Viral Replication, Prions & Slow Viruses — Past Paper)
- Prions and Slow Viruses — structure, diseases, pathogenesis, diagnosis (EXAM: Basic Virology, Viral Replication, Prions & Slow Viruses — Past Paper)