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Infectious Agents | Viruses, Prions, Bacteria, Fungi, Protozoa, and Helminths (Worms)

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

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Is There a Virus in a Microscope?

There's one virus, i think caled, a mime varus, that you can see with a light microscopebu. But wold that be er when the cells stained? You have to have some staining procedure rather than to see it on its own. Many of them look like a odd looking moon lander. Are they like bacterio pages? Bacterio fadges predomintlyt look ak, that not all ame. Other varuses can look like thatsa but generally speaking, if you're take a virus, it's got this protein envelope on the outside called a capsid,. and the inside of that, it's just got nucle

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