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- Analyzing the damage due to the direct infection of virus and due to the inflammation?
When a bacteria/virus infects a human, they damage the infected tissues and cells.
Also further damage is seen in case of body's own inflammatory response in fighting the germs.
How do we distinguish the damage due to germ's direct action/invasion from the damage caused due to the body's excessive immune reaction (such as cytokine storm)?
Is there a way to differentiate the injury caused by them separately? Can the pathologists identify that a 'particular damage is due to the virus itself' while 'another damage is due to the inflammation' etc, by analyzing them?
Also further damage is seen in case of body's own inflammatory response in fighting the germs.
How do we distinguish the damage due to germ's direct action/invasion from the damage caused due to the body's excessive immune reaction (such as cytokine storm)?
Is there a way to differentiate the injury caused by them separately? Can the pathologists identify that a 'particular damage is due to the virus itself' while 'another damage is due to the inflammation' etc, by analyzing them?