Hepatitis A virus discovered to cloak itself in membranes hijacked from infected cells
Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Viruses have historically been classified into one of two types – those with an outer lipid-containing envelope and those without an envelope. For the first time, researchers have discovered that hepatitis A virus, a common cause of enterically-transmitted hepatitis, takes on characteristics of both virus types depending on whether it is in a host or in the environment.