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.
Besides SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is among the highly pathogenic coronaviruses that can lead to severe respiratory disease and death. It is
