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Noroviruses are unique in their ability to exploit commensal bacteria to stimulate their infection along the intestinal tract.

An ELISA is typically used in virus diagnostics to capture and detect which two of these from serum?  

Which of the following statements about the type I interferon response are true?

Which of the following mechanisms are used by certain picornaviruses for entry into target cells ?

What is the mechanism of action of amantadine? 

You have sera from 3 people that you believe to be infected with influenza virus, and you would like to know the relative titer of virus in each person. These are the results of your hemagglutination assay.  Which patient has the highest titer of virus?    

Global warming seems to be causing a higher rate of coral ___ (= name of the phenomenon when corals lose their dinoflagellate symbionts). 

Toxoplasma reproduces sexually in the digestive tract of a ___.  

Most sponges are ___ (= “one house”), meaning that each individual is able to produce both egg and sperm.  

In sea stars, tube feet are located in the ___ grooves on the oral side.