- A
virus is a
submicroscopic infectious agent that
replicates only
inside the
living cells of an organism.
Viruses infect all life forms, from animals...
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Creating a
unified list of
computer viruses is
challenging due to
inconsistent naming conventions. To
combat computer viruses and
other malicious software,...
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formal taxonomic classification of
viruses is the
responsibility of the
International Committee on
Taxonomy of
Viruses (ICTV) system,
although the Baltimore...
- "infected" with a
computer virus, a
metaphor derived from
biological viruses.
Computer viruses generally require a host program. The
virus writes its own code...
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parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs) are the
viruses that
cause human parainfluenza.
HPIVs are a
paraphyletic group of four
distinct single-stranded RNA
viruses belonging...
- double-stranded DNA (dsDNA)
viruses, and
those that have one
strand of DNA in
their genome,
called single-stranded DNA (ssDNA)
viruses.
dsDNA viruses primarily belong...
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virus disease, rabies, polio, mumps, and measles. All
known RNA
viruses, that is
viruses that use a
homologous RNA-dependent
polymerase for replication...
- The
human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two
species of
Lentivirus (a
subgroup of retrovirus) that
infect humans. Over time, they
cause acquired immunodeficiency...
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Tumor viruses come in a
variety of forms:
Viruses with a DNA genome, such as adenovirus, and
viruses with an RNA genome, like the
hepatitis C
virus (HCV)...
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against new
viruses, even
those that use non-signature-based
methods that
should detect new
viruses. The
reason for this is that the
virus designers test...
