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 | | Micrograph from J. Esposito, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and F. Murphy, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. |
 | | Two hallmarks of rabies virus infection are seen — there is minimal damage seen to the structure of infected neurons even though the extent of the infection is dramatic, and large numbers of bullet-shaped virions accumulate as a result of budding upon the endoplasmic reticulum membranes of these cells. |
 | | In this micrograph virions are seen budding into membrane vesicles (Golgi vesicles) in the cytoplasm of a liver cell (hepatocyte) of an infected rat. |
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