The measles virus is an enveloped virus bearing a lipid bilayer. The bilayer holds the receptor binding hemagglutinin (H) protein and the fusion (F) protein. For infection to happen, the H protein ...

You are about to create a live-attenuated vaccine, which means that you need to alter a pathogen—in this case a measles virus—so that it will still invade cells in the body and use those cells ...

Mutation in the F protein is key for the measles virus to fuse and infect neurons. Two primary strategies exist for such infection. Initially, fusion activity of a mutant F protein is suppressed ...

According to LPH, the symptoms of measles appear 7 to 21 days after contact with the virus, and may include: According to LPH, measles is a highly transmissible disease that lives in an infected ...