passive evasion of host immune response

id: GO:0042782
name: passive evasion of host immune response
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Any mechanism of immune avoidance that does not directly interfere with the host immune system; for example, some viruses enter a state of latency where their protein production is drastically downregulated, meaning that they are not detected by the host immune system. The host is defined as the larger of the organisms involved in a symbiotic interaction.

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