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Michael B. A. Oldstone, Viruses Can Cause Disease in the Absence of Morphological Evidence of Cell Injury: Implication for Uncovering New Diseases in the Future, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 159, Issue 3, March 1989, Pages 384–389, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/159.3.384
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Abstract
A virus can replicate in differentiated cells, there by altering their ability to make specialized products such as endocrine hormones, neurotransmitters, and lymphokines. Systemically, the outcome can be an imbalance in homeostasis, resulting in diseases of the endocrine, nervous, immune, or other systems, frequentlyin the absence of detectable cell destruction.
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