HIV “budding” out of a human immune cell

Description

This electron photomicrograph shows HIV budding out of a human immune cell, which the virus infects and uses to make copies.

Credit

Public domain/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health/ courtesy of Dr. Tom Folks/ 2008

Source

http://history.nih.gov/NIHInOwnWords/docs/page_40b.html