The mechanism of intracellular infection
A medical student asks you to draw a picture of HIV virion and a CD4+ cell and to explain the mechanism of intracellular infection and the role of reverse transcriptase. What would you show on the drawing and explain about the process?Intracellular pathogens invade, survive, replicate and try to establish persistent infection in mammalian cells, and could release from the host cell at the end of their infection cycle.

