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Definition of poxvirus in English: poxvirusnoun Medicine Any of a group of large DNA viruses that cause smallpox and similar infectious diseases in vertebrates. Example sentencesExamples - The vaccine is freeze-dried, live vaccinia virus, a poxvirus related to smallpox virus.
- Like all viruses, poxviruses co-opt various cellular molecules and processes to enter a cell, replicate and then spread to uninfected cells.
- He followed this achievement by showing how poxviruses express their genes and replicate their DNA in host cells.
- In the 1950s an introduced poxvirus decimated the European rabbit, the lynx's main prey.
- Bacteriophage is a tailed, double-stranded DNA virus that serves as an important model for assembly of large DNA viruses such as herpes and poxviruses.
Definition of poxvirus in US English: poxvirusnounˈpäksˌvīrəs Medicine Any of a group of large DNA viruses that cause smallpox and similar infectious diseases in vertebrates. Example sentencesExamples - The vaccine is freeze-dried, live vaccinia virus, a poxvirus related to smallpox virus.
- He followed this achievement by showing how poxviruses express their genes and replicate their DNA in host cells.
- In the 1950s an introduced poxvirus decimated the European rabbit, the lynx's main prey.
- Like all viruses, poxviruses co-opt various cellular molecules and processes to enter a cell, replicate and then spread to uninfected cells.
- Bacteriophage is a tailed, double-stranded DNA virus that serves as an important model for assembly of large DNA viruses such as herpes and poxviruses.
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