Re:Covid drug drives viral mutations – and now some want to ...
by etiam on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:16AM
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Well described.
There are viruses which affect other viruses with arguably more than a side effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virophage ), but for natural reasons it seems a bit off from fully analogous to bacteriophages.
Coronaviruses are at the high end of size and complexity among RNA-viruses, but it's still hard for me to see that virophages would be relevant to combat SARS-CoV-2.
There are viruses which affect other viruses with arguably more than a side effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virophage ), but for natural reasons it seems a bit off from fully analogous to bacteriophages.
Coronaviruses are at the high end of size and complexity among RNA-viruses, but it's still hard for me to see that virophages would be relevant to combat SARS-CoV-2.