virus | (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts, many are pathogenic, a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein |
parainfluenza virus | a virus that causes upper respiratory infection (including the common cold and bronchiolitis), most often in children |
Junin virus | the RNA virus that causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever, carried by rats and mice |
Lassa virus | the RNA virus that causes Lassa fever |
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus | the RNA virus that causes lymphocytic choriomeningitis, infects mice and monkeys and dogs and guinea pigs and human beings |
Machupo virus | the RNA virus that causes Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, carried by rats and mice |
Ebola virus | a filovirus that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever, carried by animals, can be used as a bioweapon |
Marburg virus | a filovirus that causes Marburg disease, carried by animals, can be used as a bioweapon |
West Nile virus West Nile encephalitis virus | the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis |
myxoma virus | a poxvirus closely related to smallpox virus, causes benign gelatinous tumors in humans |
variola virus smallpox virus | the virus that causes smallpox in humans, can be used as a bioweapon |
variola major variola major virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to percent |
variola minor variola minor virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about percent |
tobacco mosaic virus TMV | the widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic, it was the first virus discovered () |
plant virus | a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
animal virus | an animal pathogen that is a virus |
human Tell leukemia virus- HTLV- | retrovirus causing Tell leukemia |
human immunodeficiency virus HIV | the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), it replicates in and kills the helper T cells |
respiratory syncytial virus | a paramyxovirus that forms syncytia in tissue culture and that is responsible for severe respiratory diseases such as bronchiolitis and bronchial pneumonia (especially in children) |
hepatitis A virus | the virus causing hepatitis A |
coxsackievirus Coxsackie virus | enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis |
herpes herpes virus | any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin |
herpes simplex herpes simplex virus | a herpes virus that affects the skin and nervous system |
herpes zoster herpes zoster virus | a herpes virus that causes shingles |
herpes varicella zoster herpes varicella zoster virus | a herpes virus that causes chickenpox and shingles |
Epstein-Barr virus EBV | the herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis, associated with specific cancers in Africa and China |
varicella zoster virus | the member of the herpes virus family that is responsible for chickenpox |
human papilloma virus | any of a group of papovaviruses associated with genital or oral carcinomas or a group associated with benign genital tumors |
polyoma polyoma virus | a virus the can initiate various kinds of tumors in mice |
slow virus | a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before symptoms appear, kuru is caused by a slow virus |
onion yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of onion plants |
potato yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of potato plants |
tumor virus | a cell-free filtrate held to be a virus responsible for a specific neoplasm |
wound tumor virus WTV | a tumor virus transmitted by leafhoppers |
anti-virus program | a computer program that checks a computer for viruses and prevents their spread |
virus computer virus | a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer, a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance |
virus | a harmful or corrupting agency, bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread, the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone |
viral infection virus infection | infection by a virus that is pathogenic to humans |