Talk:Dependoparvovirus
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not large enough to trigger an immune response[edit]
This doesn't make much sense in my mind. They still contain proteins (antigens) that can be immunogenic. The fact that they are subviral satellites also does not protect them from an immune response, see hepatitis D virus as a counterexample. If dependoparvoviruses don't trigger an immune response in their hosts, it is most likely because they are not pathogenic enough to become "interesting" for the host immune system. Perhaps they are even tolerated, if they can suppress replication of their helper virus and thus reduce the pathogenicity of that virus, without becoming harmful by themselves. --2003:E7:7732:BF77:8400:A786:EE52:4131 (talk) 00:23, 19 April 2020 (UTC)