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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
pathogen-containing vacuole lumen 
pathogen-containing vacuole membrane 
viral occlusion body 
A crystalline protein matrix surrounding the nucleocapsids of some insect viruses after their release in the environment. Produced in the host cell, the occlusion body protects the infectious virion after death of the host.

Synonyms
Xrefs: VZ:1949 "Occlusion bodies"
Never In Taxon: NCBITaxon:131567 ! cellular organisms
Definition Sources: UniProtKB-KW:KW-0842, VZ:1949

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