Stealth virus


 * For the computer virus, see Stealth virus (computers)

The term stealth-adapted virus is used to describe cell damaging (cytopathic) viruses that lack genes coding for antigens targeted by the cellular immune system. Infection with stealth-adapted viruses do not evoke the inflammatory reaction typical of most cytopathic viruses. Stealth viruses may cause a range of neurological and psychiatric illnesses.