Epstein Barr Virus Research Paper

Name of the infectious disease - Epstein-Barr virus

What type of pathogen causes the disease? (virus, bacterium, fungus)
Epstein Barr virus is a virus it is an infectious mononucleosis virus that causes people to feel tired run down and sick.

Explain the how the microb gains nutrition
Viruses technically do not feed because they don’t nutrients to carry out cell respiration because viruses don’t carry out respiration either. Hence they are not considered a living organism. However, they do reproduce but need a host cell. The process involves... the virus invading the host cell and using the resources within the cell to multiply. The host cell literally burst open because the viruses have multiplied so much they cannot fit into it. These viruses go into to invade other cells and the process starts again.

Explain how the microb reproduces
The main purpose of the virus is to reproduce, a viruses reproduction follows a cycle this is….
Penetration
To infect the cell, the virus goes through the cell membrane. It then attaches its tail fibre onto the surface and injects its genetic material (DNA and RNA). The cell is now infected with the virus.
Biosynthesis
A host cell can’t tell the …show more content…
Many people who may have the virus don’t show any symptoms of it hence it is hard to prevent the transmission of the virus onto other people if they don’t know that they have it themselves. Hopefully with new technology and better resources a vaccine can be produced. When a vaccination is given to someone the body produces antibodies that fight the infection or virus and the T-cells remember that it has fought the virus before so that when it actually comes into contact with the virus it remembers fighting the vaccination and produces the antibodies needed to fight the virus off making the person immune to the

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