retrovirusn.
/ˈrɛtrəʊˌvʌɪrəs/, U.S. /ˈrɛtroʊˌvaɪrəs/ Virology.
Any member of the family Retroviridae of enveloped, single-stranded RNA viruses possessing the enzyme reverse transcriptase, which allows integration of proviral DNA into the host genome, and which include the oncornaviruses (leukaemia and sarcoma viruses of various species, now divided into five genera), lentiviruses, and foamy viruses.
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latent virus1750
influenza virus1880
poxvirus1891
filter-passer1906
mosaic virus1914
bacteriophage1921
herpes virus1925
Rous sarcoma virus1925
Rous virus1925
papillomavirus1935
poliovirus1939
Semliki Forest virus1944
actinophage1947
mycophage1947
mengovirus1949
tumour virus1950
Zika1952
mycobacteriophage1953
Sindbis virus1953
myxovirus1954
echovirus1955
RNA virus1955
adenovirus1956
SV1956
arborvirus1957
enterovirus1957
foamy virus1957
respiratory syncytial virus1957
polyoma1958
parainfluenza1959
reovirus1959
arbovirus1960
cytomegalovirus1960
TMV1960
vacuolating agent or virus1960
Coxsackie virus1961
rhinovirus1961
RSV1961
papovavirus1962
paramyxovirus1962
picornavirus1962
mycophage1963
parvovirus1965
rhabdovirus1966
Ross River virus1966
coronavirus1968
EBV1968
Epstein–Barr virus1968
leukovirus1968
CMV1969
arenovirus1970
oncornavirus1970
togavirus1970
alphavirus1971
calicivirus1971
Dane particle1971
flavivirus1971
flavovirus1971
maedi1971
orbivirus1971
mycovirus1972
visna-maedi virus1972
flu virus1973
maedi-visna virus1973
corona1974
orthopoxvirus1974
rotavirus1974
whitepox1974
retravirus1975
Ebola virus1976
morbillivirus1976
retrovirus1976
Ebola1977
lentivirus1979
reassortant1979
HTLV1980
morbilli1981
filovirus1982
LAV1983
CV1985
HIV1986
HIV virus1987
C-192020
Covid2020
Covid-192020
CV-192020
1976 Science 14 May 632/2 The biochemically defined group of viruses called the retroviruses are the only RNA viruses known to cause cancer.
1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iii. 238 Proviral integration is an essential step in the ability of retroviruses to change the nature of the cell.
1993 Independent on Sunday 31 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 43/4 Before Aids, this gregarious Italian-American was celebrated internationally as the prime mover behind the discovery of the first human retroviruses—the agents that cause strains of communicable cancer.
2003 U.S. News & World Rep. 16 June 48/3 While pigs aren't likely to pick up a virus like SARS in the carefully controlled labs where they live, they harbor viruses called porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERV), which long ago became shoehorned into pig DNA.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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