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Transmission electron micrograph of HIV-1 virus particles (red/yellow) budding and replicating from a segment of a chronically infected H9 cell (blue/teal). Particles are in various stages of maturity; arc/semi-circles are immature particles that have started to form but are still part of the cell. Immature particles slowly change morphology into mature forms and exhibit the classic" conical.