๐Ÿ”ฌ Chronic Infection

Productive infections in which virions are released in a manner that does not terminate the class="bap-term">wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual" target="_blank" class="bap-term">individual cell infection nor kill the infected+cell" class="bap-term">infected cell.

by Stephen T. Abedon Ph.D. (abedon.1@osu.edu)

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About this entry: Chronic Infection is one of a growing set of phage biology and phage therapy terms defined here. For more phage terms, see Abedon, S.T. (2025). Phage Therapy Annotated Glossary. Preprints.org. 10.20944/preprints202508.0347.v1

phage.org/terms/chronic_infection.html  ·  Abedon’s Books  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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Chronic Infection: Productive infections in which virions are released in a manner that does not terminate the class="bap-term">wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual" target="_blank" class="bap-term">individual cell infection nor kill the infected+cell" class="bap-term">infected cell.

Discussion

<p>The majority of phages that infect chronically possess filamentous virions, such as phage M13, which is the darling of phage display Biotechnology">technologies. Numerous Enveloped virus">enveloped animal viruses by contrast are released chronically.

See also the idea of chronic infection more generally, that is, of multicellular organisms.

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Abedon, S.T. (2026). Phage Terms. https://terms.phage.org  ·  10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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