Hi V., I am not the person to answer you. Talk to a pro-microbiologist. Maybe one will pop out of the lurk gallery. I am interested in learning about mycoplasms myself.
Viruses do not reproduce by fission or spore; they are build piece by piece by the host cell, and they depend upon their host to provide the parts. I think everything is alive myself, since metabolism is caused by consciousness, and not the other way around. Page 43 of Medical Microbiology , 3rd Ed. Murray, Rosenthal, Kobayashi, and Pfaller says, in the box 6-2 lower right corner of the page, beginning of chapter 6 which is" Viral Classification, Structure, and Replication", quote: "Viruses are not living". I will concede it's not much of a life, but that seems like someone is twiddling with the definition. James Osbourne, Holmes [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Vilik Rapheles [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CS>Questions on CS/To james Most puzzling is the fact that CS kills or deactivates, in the case of >virons---which are said to not be living things---such a wide spectrum of >classes of pathogens. Their metabolisms are different, and the manner of >their activity in the body is different, yet the CS destroys so many of >them. >~~~~~~~ Please say more about this!!!???!!!!! If they are not living, how could they have metabolisms? Are these the 'cell-wall deficient' critters? What is relationship to mycoplasma? V. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
