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Mixamatosis - What Is It?
Mixamatosis is a disease caused by the mix virus, which is a member of a family we are familiar with here on the podcast. Maxoma virus replicates in the citoplasm of cells, and it's a really fascinating virus because it has a lot of proteins that interact with the host immune response. Mixolma virus, interestingly, cane in vitro, like in a petrie dish or a cell culture bottle, in cells from many, many different host species including human cancer cells.