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These include the presence of an actively replicating, fully competent virus; the presence in the cells of a persistent virus infection; or the presence of a replicating but defective virus (14).
[15] Because HDV is a defective virus, it cannot infect by itself and requires the HBV to create a coinfection (sometimes referred to as a superinfection).
If that's the case, the defective strain might be used to make a vaccine: Healthy people would be exposed to the defective virus so that they could produce antibodies, chemicals that would protect them from more dangerous HIV strains.
 
 
 
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