List of subviral agents
Subviral agents are pathogenic entities that can cause disease, but lack various fundamental properties of viruses. Subviral agents consist of satellites, viroids, prions, defective interfering particles, viriforms, and, most recently, obelisks.[1][2][3]
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ Thompson, Joanna. "Weird 'Obelisks' Found in Human Gut May be Virus-Like Entities". Scientific American. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
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