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- From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: What homing device does a virus use?
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 09:49:48 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- There are several viruses (some, but not all, strains of herpes,
- HPV, etc.) that cause sores or growths on the skin *around* the
- mouth or the skin *around* the genitalia, though not in the mouth
- itself or on the genitalia directly. In the case of a virus that
- directly infects the mouth or genitalia, I can understand the
- specificity as a preference for tissue type. But in the other
- case, how does a virus distinguish skin *around* the genitalia
- (for example) from skin around the belly button or around the ear?
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- Russell
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