Defective interfering viruses and their
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A. C. Marriott; N. J. Dimmock
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Defective interfering (DI) virus is simply defined as a spontaneously generated virus mutant from which a critical portion of the virus genome has been deleted. At least one essential gene of the virus is deleted, either in its entirety, or sufficiently to make it nonβfunctional. The re