A plaque assay has been developed for the minute virus of mice. The infectious unit is a single particle. Plaque size is determined by the extent of cell division in the infected monolayer. Infection of quiescent and serum-stimulated cells suggests that virus multiplication depends on host function(s) that are not normally expressed in resting cells.
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Peter Tattersall (1972) studied this question.