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The individual viral unit, one particle, standing intact outside a cell, is called a virion. The capsid also defines the exterior shape of a virus. Virions of Ebola and Marburg, for instance, are long filaments, which is why they’ve been placed in a group known as filoviruses.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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