mousepox

Or mouse pox

[mous-poks]

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. ectromelia.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mousepox¹

First recorded in 1945–50; mouse + pox

Example Sentences

Colin Carlson, a biologist at Georgetown University, has started to worry about mousepox.

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One of the more famous examples is how the introduction of an extra gene in mousepox – the mouse version of smallpox – made it far more lethal and able to infect vaccinated individuals.

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By adding a single gene to its DNA, Australian researchers turned a mousepox virus that normally causes only mild symptoms in rodents into a virulent killer that wiped out all their lab mice in less than 10 days.

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