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What are viral capsids composed of?

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Capsomeres composed of proteins

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What are viral envelopes composed of?

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Lipid bilayer and glycoproteins

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How are enveloped viruses transmitted?

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Close contact - respiratory, parenteral, sexual routes

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How are nonenveloped viruses transmitted?

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Fecal-oral route

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Two types of latent infections

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Episomal latency (extrachromosomal viral genes floating in cytoplasm or nucleus), proviral latency (viral genome integrated into DNA of host cell)

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