Meaning | An animal pathogen that is a virus. |
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Narrower | adenovirus | Any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye |
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alphavirus | An arbovirus of the family Togaviridae that can cause a variety of encephalitis in horses |
arenavirus | animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae |
bunyavirus | An animal virus belonging to the family Bunyaviridae |
filovirus | animal viruses belonging to the family Filoviridae |
flavivirus | animal viruses belonging to the family Flaviviridae |
hepadnavirus | A group of animal DNA viruses including viruses of ducks and woodchucks and squirrels and others as well as the virus causing hepatitis B in humans |
herpes, herpes virus | Any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin |
lyssavirus | A neurotropic non-arbovirus of the family Rhabdoviridae that causes rabies |
myxovirus | Any of a group of RNA viruses including those that cause influenza and mumps |
papovavirus | Any of a group of animal viruses associated with or causing papillomas or polyomas |
parvovirus, parvo | Any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle |
picornavirus | A group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat |
poxvirus | Any of a group of viruses that can cause pox diseases in vertebrates |
reovirus | Any of a group of non-arboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis |
retrovirus | Any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA) |
rhabdovirus | Any of a group of arboviruses including those causing rabies |
vesiculovirus | An animal virus that causes vesicular stomatitis |
Broader | virus | (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts |
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