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It means that the virus stays "hidden" and inactive in their bodies, instead of being completely destroyed, and then can later reactivate and cause new and sometimes different symptoms.
This happens, for example, with the virus that causes chicken pox. Once it is inactive after the acute phase of that infection, it can stay that way in the body (in the nerve tissues in this example) for decades, and then reactivate and cause the nerve pain and rash that is called "Shingles" or "Herpes Zoster" later in life. It is also true that polio viruses can remain latent until decades later and then reactivate with weakness and other, sometimes debilitating, symptoms. Several viruses are able to become latent this way.
What else can I help you with?
Is the measles virus latent?
This virus is sometimes called a slow virus because it can be latent-like. It doesn't mean that it is in this form when it takes a few days to show symptoms after infection. This in called incubation. This form in measles stays in latency up to 10 years and will show then as a progressive brain disease and finally death.
What does body temperature mean?
How hot or cold a persons body is.
What does shed virus mean?
Shedding virus refers to the process in which a person or animal releases virus particles from their body, usually through respiratory secretions or bodily fluids. This shedding can occur even if the individual does not show symptoms of illness, making them capable of spreading the virus to others unknowingly.
Will everyone who comes in contact with H1N1 get the virus?
If you mean contact as in being in the room with a person who has it, maybe. If you mean contact as in, an infiltration of the virus into your body, then yes, as that is what embodies "infection".
When virus enter a lysogenic phase it mean?
When a virus enters the lysogenic phase, it integrates its genetic material into the host's DNA and remains dormant. The virus replicates along with the host cell during cell division. This phase allows the virus to evade detection by the immune system and can later switch to the lytic phase to produce new viruses.
What does quiescent mean in medical terms?
rest, latent.
What does latent in medical terms mean?
Latent is usually used to describe something that was hidden or something that didn't show signs.
Can shingles bleed?
Herpes is the name of the virus; a virus has no blood.If you mean can a part of the body which is affected by herpes bleed, it depends on what sort of herpes virus you have and which part of the body.A cold sore, caused by the herpes virus, can indeed crack and bleed.
What does hepatitis c carrier mean?
Being a Hepatitis C carrier means that at some point, the person was infected with the virus and it stays in their body for life.
When you have a stomach virus what does your stomach produce to get rid of it?
Having a stomach virus does not mean that the virus is in the stomach. Few germs could live in the acid there. What stomach virus refers to is a virus infection in the entire body that happens to cause nausea and expulsion of the stomach's contents and also diarrhea in the intestines.
What does inflammatory expression mean?
It's like an inflammatory response. It is how much inflammation is shown after a trauma to the body. Weather it is to the tissue of the body or if a virus/disease infects the cells of the body.
What does term latent fingerprint mean?
It means that it could be present but is not obvious
