In infection biology, persistence refers to a pathogen being able to survive in a patient’s body.
Detailed description
Pathogen persistence means that a pathogen continuously replicates like during a chronic infection or that it survives in a silent form in a refuge space within the body. Certain conditions can reactivate the silent form and cause again disease.
Following infection, the Ebola virus can survive unnoticed in the human body for months or even years, hiding in areas with little immune surveillance like the central nervous system. The danger is
Prof. Dr Christoph Ernst from the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene at the University Hospital of Cologne and the Faculty of Medicine has been selected for the Boehringer
