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| Noun | 1. | animal virus - an animal pathogen that is a virusvirus - (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 adenovirus - any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye arenavirus - animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae bunyavirus - an animal virus belonging to the family Bunyaviridae; can be used as a bioweapon filovirus - animal viruses belonging to the family Filoviridae alphavirus - an arbovirus of the family Togaviridae that can cause a variety of encephalitis in horses flavivirus - animal viruses belonging to the family Flaviviridae poxvirus - any of a group of viruses that can cause pox diseases in vertebrates hepadnavirus - a group of animal DNA viruses including viruses of ducks and woodchucks and squirrels and others as well as the virus causing hepatitis B in humans retrovirus - any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell myxovirus - any of a group of RNA viruses including those that cause influenza and mumps picornavirus - a group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat papovavirus - any of a group of animal viruses associated with or causing papillomas or polyomas rhabdovirus - any of a group of arboviruses including those causing rabies lyssavirus - a neurotropic non-arbovirus of the family Rhabdoviridae that causes rabies reovirus - any of a group of non-arboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis parvo, parvovirus - any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle; not known to be associated with any human disease |