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 |
Ebola hemorrhagic fever Ebola fever Ebola | a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus, characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding, can be spread from person to person, is largely limited to Africa |
viral infection virus infection | infection by a virus that is pathogenic to humans |