- A
virus is a
submicroscopic infectious agent that
replicates only
inside the
living cells of an organism.
Viruses infect all life forms, from animals...
- "infected" with a
computer virus, a
metaphor derived from
biological viruses.
Computer viruses generally require a host program. The
virus writes its own code...
-
formal taxonomic classification of
viruses is the
responsibility of the
International Committee on
Taxonomy of
Viruses (ICTV) system,
although the Baltimore...
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compilation of a
unified list of
computer viruses is made
difficult because of naming. To aid the
fight against computer viruses and
other types of
malicious software...
-
influenza B
virus. The
second lineage of the B
virus was
since added to
provide greater defense against circulating flu
viruses. Two
influenza A
viruses and two...
- bat in 2013.
Influenza type A
viruses are very
similar in
structure to
influenza viruses types B, C, and D. The
virus particle (also
called the virion)...
- double-stranded DNA (dsDNA)
viruses, and
those that have one
strand of DNA in
their genome,
called single-stranded DNA (ssDNA)
viruses.
dsDNA viruses primarily belong...
- and
sequencing of the
Norwalk virus genome showed that
these viruses have a
genomic organization consistent with
viruses belonging to the
family Caliciviridae...
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Tumor viruses come in a
variety of forms:
Viruses with a DNA genome, such as adenovirus, and
viruses with an RNA genome, like the
hepatitis C
virus (HCV)...
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parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs) are the
viruses that
cause human parainfluenza.
HPIVs are a
paraphyletic group of four
distinct single-stranded RNA
viruses belonging...