Portal:Viruses/Did you know/26

...that agnoprotein (pictured) is found in two polyomaviruses that can cause human disease, JC virus and BK virus?
...that the immunology professor Mary Collins studies ways to use genetically engineered HIV as a vaccine?
...that the Alternanthera mosaic virus, a type of Potexvirus, has been misdiagnosed as the closely related Papaya mosaic virus?
...that though once thought to be sterile, the uterine microbiome contains at least 14 commensal microorganisms in healthy women?
...that a form of encephalitis that killed three people is believed to have been caused by a virus carried by their pet variegated squirrels?