A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals...
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Ovine rinderpest (redirect from Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus)
from Rinderpest virus. Four genotypes (lineages) of the virus are described. Their classification is based on the nucleoprotein (N) or previously the fusion...
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Virology (redirect from Virus hunter)
scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods...
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Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus species in the genus Tobamovirus that infects a wide range of plants, especially...
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zoster virus (VZV), also known as human herpesvirus 3 (HHV-3, HHV3) or Human alphaherpesvirus 3 (taxonomically), is one of nine known herpes viruses that...
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Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 (A/H5N1) is a subtype of the influenza A virus, which causes influenza (flu), predominantly in birds. It is enzootic (maintained...
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Smallpox (redirect from Smallpox virus)
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally...
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Virus crystallisation is the re-arrangement of viral components into solid crystal particles. The crystals are composed of thousands of inactive forms...
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Taxonomy (biology) (redirect from Systems of zoological classification)
Tree of Life Parataxonomy Phenogram Set theory Taxonomy (general) Virus classification This ranking system, except for "Strain", can be remembered by the...
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International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses's virus classification includes fifteen taxomomic ranks to be applied for viruses, viroids and satellite nucleic...
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Spike protein (section Influenza viruses)
ISBN 9780128145166. Lwoff, André; Tournier, Paul (October 1966). "The Classification of Viruses". Annual Review of Microbiology. 20 (1): 45–74. doi:10.1146/annurev...
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system. It can be managed with treatment. Without treatment it can lead...
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Viral evolution (redirect from Virus evolution)
specifically concerned with the evolution of viruses. Viruses have short generation times, and many—in particular RNA viruses—have relatively high mutation rates...
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Morbillivirus (category Virus genera)
Morbillivirus is a genus of viruses in the order Mononegavirales, in the family Paramyxoviridae. Humans, dogs, cats, cattle, seals, and cetaceans serve...
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Kingdom (biology) (section Viruses)
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses uses the taxonomic rank "kingdom" in the classification of viruses (with the suffix -virae); but this is...
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Rinderpest (redirect from Rinderpest virus)
"cattle plague". The rinderpest virus (RPV) is closely related to the measles and canine distemper viruses. The measles virus may have emerged from rinderpest...
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The Lily mottle virus (LMoV), is a plant virus of the Potyviridae virus family that causes asymptomatic to mild diseases of individual plant parts in...
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Equine infectious anemia (redirect from Equine infectious anemia virus)
caused by a retrovirus (Equine infectious anemia virus) and transmitted by bloodsucking insects. The virus (EIAV) is endemic in the Americas, parts of Europe...
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duck hepatitis virus type 1 and type 1a is, in essence, the same as one another. Duck Hepatitis is a Class B disease listed by the Office des International...
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Bacteriophage (redirect from Bacterial virus)
(/bækˈtɪərioʊfeɪdʒ/), also known informally as a phage (/ˈfeɪdʒ/), is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria and archaea. The term was derived...
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fever virus (ASFV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus in the Asfarviridae family. It is the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF). The virus causes...
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Linnaean taxonomy (redirect from Linnaean classification)
mean either of two related concepts: The particular form of biological classification (taxonomy) set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set forth in his Systema Naturae...
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infections and GBS are less certain. Two other herpes viruses (Epstein–Barr virus/HHV-4 and varicella zoster virus/HHV-3) and the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae...
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Biological hazard (section UN/ISO Classification)
organisms, primarily humans. This could include a sample of a microorganism, virus or toxin that can adversely affect human health. A biohazard could also...
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Cache Valley orthobunyavirus (redirect from Cache Valley Virus)
infected it has caused encephalitis and multiorgan failure. The Cache Valley virus genome is split into three parts. The three parts are called the small,...
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Hepatitis C (redirect from Hepatitis nonA nonB virus)
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that primarily affects the liver; it is a type of viral hepatitis. During the...
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Ape (section Taxonomic classification and phylogeny)
hunting. The great apes of Africa are also facing threat from the Ebola virus. "Ape", from Old English apa, is a word of uncertain origin. The term has...
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evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms Taxonomy Virus classification List of Anuran families List of Testudines families List of fish...
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Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PED virus or PEDV) is a coronavirus that infects the cells lining the small intestine of a pig, causing porcine epidemic...
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