suppression by virus of host adaptive immune response

id: GO:0039504
name: suppression by virus of host adaptive immune response
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Any process in which a virus stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of the adaptive immune response of the host organism, an immune response based on directed amplification of specific receptors for antigen produced through a somatic diversification process, and allowing for enhanced response to subsequent exposures to the same antigen (immunological memory).

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