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The arrows in this scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image point to the exportation of virus particles from cell surface pseudopodia. See PHIL 15527, for a colorized version of this image. 24-hours after Vero E6 culture cells were infected with the SARS-CoV (coronavirus), it was evident that there was a prolific increase in the number of cell surface pseudopodia, from which virus particle were being exported in great numbers.

For more on these findings, please visit the link below, and search the EID PDF for the article’s title, Topographic Changes in SARS Coronavirus.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Dr. Mary Ng Mah Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Creation Date: 2004
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Links: CDC – Emerging Infectious Disease, EID, Vol. 10, No. 11, November 2004, Topographic Changes in SARS Coronavirus
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