Foundation researchers recorded the moment a cell undergoes degeneration after infection
looking for Fucruz (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz) was able to record with images the moment a cell undergoes lysis after infection with the virus responsible for smallpox in monkeys. Magnification of the image up to 40,000 times allows viral particles to appear close to the replication process in the cell cytoplasm. 
According to the researchers, the size of the virus is estimated at 300 nanometers, which is equivalent to 0.00003 centimeters. Despite being 300 times smaller than a cell, scientists estimate that it reproduces easily when successfully infecting it.
The images were taken during a study on virus replication, from a clinical sample of an infected patient that came into contact with cells of the Vero strain, and is often used for assays. in the laboratory and viral isolation.
The research is being coordinated by the Head of the Laboratory of Viral Morphology and Formation, Deborah Ferreira Barreto Vieira, in collaboration with her team (Milene Dias Miranda, Gabriela Cardoso Caldas and Vivian Ferreira), in partnership with researchers from the Enterovirus Laboratory, a reference in in vitro diagnostics in monkeypox for Ministry of Health.
The disease was declared an international public health emergency by Who is the (WHO) More than 40,000 cases of infection have been recorded since the virus left the regions of the African continent, where it used to be endemic.
The disease can be transmitted through personal and intimate contact, such as kissing, hugging and sexual intercourse, contact with cuts, crusts or bodily fluids, as well as by respiratory secretions during prolonged personal contact.
Symptoms can include skin lesions, fever, body aches, headache, and others. People with these symptoms should seek health services to access testing.
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