How can you explain that an adult who had chicken pox, is now at risk of the shingles infection if you know that both diseases are caused by the same virus?
a. This is the same thing as the latent period of an active infection.
b. This is akin to the attachment phase of replication.
c. This is something that occurs during the lytic cycle.
d. The virus has been lying dormant inside the cells for some time and can begin reproducing again later.
e. This could never occur.
Answer: d. The virus has been lying dormant inside the cells for some time and can begin reproducing again later.
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