Hi tcm,
Interesting stuff.
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Originally Posted by tcmgpt13  Has a virus such as iridovirus now been able to make the jump to humans? |
I just googled iridovirus to see if anything human related came up. How come there's always another pathogen round the corner?? This article is about a new emerging virus named Mimivirus which is large and similar enough to be a bacterium, but its a virus which can cause Pneumonia in humans.
In the PDF it says:
"Our suspicion that Mimivirus was related to iridoviruses was confirmed by phylogenetic inference derived from alignment of ribonucleotide reductase gene sequences. This analysis indicated that the virus grouped with other nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs), including viruses in the Iridoviridae, Baculoviridae, Phycodnaviridae, and Poxviridae families."
Chicago Journals - Clinical Infectious Diseases
Virusus that act like bacteria..ummm...KRITTS, where's that Rex book, you never talk about??!
Jo xxx