What Is a Chronic Infection?

After an acute or recessive infection, the virus persists in the body's blood or tissues and is often or intermittently excreted from the body; the disease progresses slowly.

Chronic infection

Chronic infection A virus that continues to replicate in a host or cell culture without killing the host or the entire cell culture.

After an acute or recessive infection, the virus persists in the body's blood or tissues and is often or intermittently excreted from the body; the disease progresses slowly.

Such as: Molluscum contagiosum; chronic hepatitis