Abstract
Very different kinds of pathogen—in this case, one a virus, the other a mycoplasma—can act as if cooperating when infecting cultured cells, with one augmenting the potency of the other, according to Peter Lidsky and Vadim I. Agol of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia, and their collaborators at the Academy and the nearby M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, as well as at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Thus a DNAase from a simultaneously infecting mycoplasma enhances the cell-killing activity of the encephalomyocarditis (EMC) virus, they report in the October Journal of Virology (83:9940–9951).
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