poxvirus
Americannoun
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poxviruses
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Origin of poxvirus
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These had been developed and stockpiled in the US and Europe, mostly in preparation for a potential bioweapon attack using a poxvirus.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024
The viral core is one of the factors common to all infectious poxvirus forms.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
MPXV, a member of the poxvirus family, is spread by intimate personal contact.
From Science Magazine ● May 10, 2023
Justice, in my mind, would be for your boss to have to go confess to the new gym owner that he passed along a potentially toxic candidate like a used tumbling mat covered with poxvirus.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023
In past outbreaks involving this poxvirus, animals — especially rodents — have been the primary source of transmission to humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
"We found that A10 defines key structural elements of the core of poxviruses," says Datler.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
And although poxviruses have ways of tricking the immune system, they don’t change their surface proteins to escape immunity, as SARS-CoV-2 does.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 15, 2022
I study how these viruses evade the immune system and am working on modifying poxviruses to prevent infection as well as treat other diseases, including cancer.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2022
For now, only designated U.S. military personnel and laboratory researchers who work with certain poxviruses may receive this vaccine.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2022
Some experts have cautioned for years that the eradication of smallpox in 1980 left the world vulnerable to the broader family of poxviruses and raised the odds of monkeypox evolving into a successful human pathogen.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
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