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How do you treat lytic and lysogenic (latent) viral infections?


I know the difference between the two but i can't find good information on how to treat each. (im looking for like, where in the cycles can u treat etc)

While viral latency exhibits no active viral shedding nor causes any pathologies or symptoms, the virus is still able to reactivate via external activators (i.e. sunlight, stress) to cause an acute infection. In the case of Herpes simplex virus, which generally infects an individual for life, a serotype of the virus reactivates occasionally to cause cold sores. The sores are quickly resolved by the immune system, however may be a minor annoyance from time to time. In the case of varicella zoster virus, after an initial acute infection (chickenpox) the virus lies dormant until reactivated as herpes zoster.

More serious ramifications of a latent infection could be the possibility of transforming the cell, and forcing the cell into uncontrolled cell division. This is a result of the random insertion of the viral genome into the hosts own gene and suppression of host cellular growth factors for the benefit of the virus. A famous event of this actually happening with gene therapy through the use of retroviral vectors is the Necker Hospital in Paris, where 8 young boys received treatment for a genetic disorder, after which 4 developed leukemia[11].

This is also seen with infections of the human papilloma virus in which persistant infection may lead to cervical cancer as a result of cellular transformation[12][13][14].

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