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Bridging efficient viral infection

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Viral transmission from an infected cell to a target cell has been long appreciated to be more efficient than infection with a cell-free virus. New work using high-resolution, live-cell microscopy techniques provides important insights into the mechanisms underlying the efficiency of retrovirus transmission between cells.

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Figure 1: Transfer of virus from infected cells to target cells along viral cytonemes.

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  1. Thomas J. Hope is in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwester University, Ward 8-140, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. thope@northwestern.edu,

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Hope, T. Bridging efficient viral infection. Nat Cell Biol 9, 243–244 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb0307-243

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