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. 2014 Jan 14;35(2):86–102. doi: 10.1016/j.tips.2013.11.006

Figure 1.

Figure 1

A schematic representation of the viral life cycle. The life cycle of a virus can be divided into six basic steps: 1. receptor or co-receptor binding; 2. fusion; 3. release of the viral genome; 4. translation of viral proteins; 5. genome multiplication; and 6. assembly, packaging, and release of the progeny virus. Because viral life cycles have extremely large discrepancies according to the type of virus, we refer the readers to find more detail in [143].