Virology published the research.
Here are five takeaways:
1. Viruses infect healthy cells so they can reproduce, but they also develop defense mechanisms to fight off other viruses that want to use the cells they infected. Dr. Taylor and his team analyzed this defense process, superinfection exclusion.
2. Dr. Taylor and his team found superinfection exclusion can happen without the glycoprotein D, which other scientists deemed necessary for the process, and in a shorter amount of time than previously determined.
3. The scientists put Herpes Simplex and Psuedorabies into host cells and tracked the amount of time it took the viruses to infect the healthy cells.
4. The quicker virus pushed the slower virus out of the host cell, meaning the best viruses gain dominance and spread at greater rates.
5. Dr. Taylor concludes their findings could help with understanding viral transmission and researchers could figure out how to instigate superinfection exclusion before the first virus infects.
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