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Here’s how shingles, chicken pox-causing virus evades immune system
Updated On: 29 July, 2024 10:47 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
The varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which causes chickenpox and shingles uses a new mechanism IE62 to evade the immune system and potentially affect distant tissues
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Scientists have identified a new mechanism used by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which causes chickenpox and shingles, to evade the immune system and potentially affect distant tissues.
The study, conducted by the University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus in the US, focuses on a viral protein called IE62, which is transported throughout the body in small extracellular vesicles (sEVs).
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