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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses, including those that cause smallpox, cowpox, and other poxlike diseases in vertebrates.
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- noun Any of a group of
DNA viruses , of the familyPoxviridae , that causepox diseases invertebrates
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- noun any of a group of viruses that can cause pox diseases in vertebrates
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Examples
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Over roughly the past decade, the CDC has been called to retrieve the remains of a man covered with smallpox lesions whose coffin was unearthed during construction near Louisville, Ky., as well as suspicious-looking scabs in a library book in New Mexico and a museum in Arkansas, says Inger Damon, chief of the CDC's poxvirus and rabies branch.
'Bizarre Bits' Exhibition Took a Strange Turn When Feds Arrived Betsy McKay 2011
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The smallpox vaccine is made using a poxvirus that infects cows (cowpox or vaccinia).
Smallpox Vaccine 2008
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Other vaccine trials using the poxvirus vaccinia as a vector to deliver live recombinant HIV (based on glycoprotein 160) have been found safe, and have stimulated partial immunity to HIV.
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So far the most promising of these vaccines has been one using another poxvirus -- canarypox -- to deliver HIV recombinants (See Table 2).
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CV-301 originates from the same poxvirus technology platform as PROSTVAC
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To overcome this poor responsiveness, recombinant poxvirus vectors, including vaccinia, fowlpox and modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA), can be genetically engineered to express one or more tumor-associated antigens to greatly enhance the immune system's ability to recognize and destroy cancer cells bearing any of the targeted antigens. ® and CV-301 are prime-boost vaccines, sequentially combining two different poxviruses (vaccinia and fowlpox).
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British research has found that the vaccinia poxvirus spreads infection by jumping from one cell to another before it finds an uninfected cell.
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The attachment of a poxvirus particle to a cell triggers a multitude of incompletely understood signaling events inside the cell.
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The attachment of a poxvirus particle to a cell triggers a multitude of incompletely understood signaling events inside the cell.
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British research has found that the vaccinia poxvirus spreads infection by jumping from one cell to another before it finds an uninfected cell.
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MaryW commented on the word poxvirus
Richard Preston, The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story (New York: Random House, 2002), pp. 64-66
February 16, 2016
bilby commented on the word poxvirus
I anoint quokkapox my new favourite word.
February 16, 2016
deinonychus commented on the word poxvirus
Oh, wow. I probably have to steal all of those for my sick-animals list. Very impressive collection!
February 17, 2016
alexz commented on the word poxvirus
no chickenpox?
February 17, 2016
bilby commented on the word poxvirus
Peter Piper picked a big box of pigpox pickpockets.
February 17, 2016
deinonychus commented on the word poxvirus
I find this very confusing. Lots of animals have their own poxes, but some of the ones we humans get we have named after innocent animals, like chickenpox and Molluscipoxvirus...
February 17, 2016