adenosatellite virus


De·pen·do·vi·rus

(dē-pen'dō-vī'rŭs), A genus of small defective single-stranded DNA viruses in the family Parvoviridae that depend on adenoviruses for replication. Synonym(s): adeno-associated virus, adenosatellite virus [L. dependeo, to be dependent upon, + virus]

adenosatellite virus

A virus last reported in the primary literature in the mid-1970s, which appears to have been subsumed under Dependovirus.