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Identification flow

DNA Virus Map

Envelope, genome shape, latency, and tropism

  1. DNA virus clue

    Separate enveloped herpes/hepadna patterns from nonenveloped adenovirus, papillomavirus, and parvovirus patterns.

    Reference Herpes simplex virus · Cytomegalovirus · Adenovirus · Parvovirus B19 · Hepatitis B virus

    1. Enveloped dsDNA with latency

      HSV, VZV, EBV, and CMV share herpesvirus latency/reactivation vocabulary but differ by tropism and visual clues.

      Reference Herpes simplex virus · Varicella-zoster virus · Epstein-Barr virus · Cytomegalovirus

    2. Nonenveloped DNA

      Adenovirus is dsDNA; parvovirus B19 is the small ssDNA contrast.

      Reference Adenovirus · Parvovirus B19 · Human papillomavirus

    3. Reverse transcriptase exception

      HBV is a DNA virus that carries reverse-transcriptase vocabulary.

      Reference Hepatitis B virus