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What potential therapeutic uses do viruses have?
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Vaccine: The use of live attenuated or parts of viruses as in their envelope have helped us make vaccines against them.
Answered 12/17/2013
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Cure bact.infections: A group of viruses known as bacteriophages have great potential to cure serious bacterial infection as these viruses can attack and kill specific strains of bacteria. This has already been proven successful with certain infections and the potential has barely been scratched. See http://www.Frontiersin.Org/journal/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00238/full for a well-written overview on this topic.
Answered 12/17/2013
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