Significato di picornavirus | Babel Free

Definizioni

famiglia di virus ad RNA di piccolissime dimensioni, responsabili di numerose affezioni negli esseri viventi superiori, tra cui la poliomielite, il raffreddore e l'epatite A nell'uomo

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Esempi

“Historically, interest in virology developed because these tiny microbes caused significant human and veterinary disease. One picornavirus, foot-and-mouth disease virus, was the first animal disease virus discovered; it was identified by Friedrich Loeffler and Paul Frosch in 1898 as a filterable, infectious agent that caused the dreaded foot-and-mouth disease. The discovery of poliovirus as the etiologic agent of poliomyelitis was reported 11 years later by Karl Landsteiner and Edwin Popper...”

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