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Virology is a subdiscipline of microbiology that studies the morphology, genetic structure, biochemical properties, replication strategies, interactions with host cells, and methods of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases caused by viruses. Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that can replicate only within living cells and lack metabolic activity. In their extracellular phase, viruses are inactive; upon entering a host cell, they use the host’s enzymatic and ribosomal system