Influenza is an acute human viral disease that causes brief cellular damage followed by healing and complete clearing of the virus from the body
Hepatitis C is a chronic viral disease that causes slow destruction of tissue and persistent virions that are not completely cleared. Which of these diseases is more likely to be caused by lytic virus and which is caused by a lysogenic virus?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Persistent viral infections occur when the host cell remains alive and continually produces more viruses. These conditions are especially common in animal cells with a temperate virus that can form a prophage within the host genome, thus hepatitis C is more likely caused by a lysogenic or temperate virus. Based on the short duration of symptoms with influenza and the disappearance of the virus after symptoms stop, influenza is more likely to be caused by a lytic virus.
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