Researchers Identify Tactic Dengue Virus Uses to Delay Triggering Immune Response In Infected Host (VIDEO)

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine

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For the human body to mount an immune response to a viral infection, host cells must identify the viral invader and trigger a signaling pathway. This signal then prompts the immune system to attack and subdue the pathogen. Using the dengue virus (DENV) as a model, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified the "viral sensor" that initiates an immune response and have also described how the virus counteracts this mechanism and evades immune detection.

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