How does viral DNA spread from cell to cell without causing cell death?

Answer 1

The way that the virus is reproduced is by infecting and killing the host cell and cloning themselves. This would mean that it cannot spread from cell to cell. But there is an exception to all this. when an infection goes through a lysogenic cycle, the virus gets planted into one of the host's chromosome. After this, when the host cell reproduce, the virus is also copied and thus two cells end up with the virus. Sorry it was so long, but I hope it answered your question.

Answer 2

Abstract. This paper is a continuation of recent attempts to understand, via mathematical modeling, the dynamics of marine bacteriophage infections. Previous authors have proposed systems of ordinary differential delay equations with delay dependent coefficients. In this paper we continue these studies in two respects. First, we show that the dynamics is sensitive to the phage mortality function, and in particular to the parameter we use to measure the density dependent phage mortality rate. Second, we incorporate spatial effects by deriving, in one spatial dimension, a delay reactiondiffusion model in which the delay term is rigorously derived by solving a von Foerster equation. Using this model, we formally compute the speed at which the viral infection spreads through the domain and investigate how this speed depends on the system parameters. Numerical simulations suggest that the minimum speed according to linear theory is the asymptotic speed of propagation.

Answer 3

via a lysogenic cycle