Elementary Viral Body

In virology and microbiology, the viral body (virion) is understood as the elementary form of existence of a virus - its extracellular structure, capable of infecting susceptible host cells and replicating in them. It is a morphological variety of viruses and, accordingly, the simplest form of life. Different types of viruses have

Elementary Viral Bodies (EVT) is an obsolete name used to refer to virions (virus particles) of large viruses. EVTs were discovered in 1945 by Anderson and Kolender after using a special light microscopy staining technique to detect