Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a genus of DNA viruses that infect birds and mammals and induce tumors in certain rodents.
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- noun a
papovavirus that induces a wide variety oftumours in newborn animals
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Examples
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Some of these patients develop a damaging condition called polyomavirus nephropathy that can lead to chronic kidney failure and the need to re-initiate dialysis or undergo another transplant.
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Some of these patients develop a damaging condition called polyomavirus nephropathy that can lead to chronic kidney failure and the need to re-initiate dialysis or undergo another transplant.
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Some of these patients develop a damaging condition called polyomavirus nephropathy that can lead to chronic kidney failure and the need to re-initiate dialysis or undergo another transplant.
innovations-report 2009
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In addition, I isolated a novel lymphotropic polyomavirus from African Green Monkey lymphoblasts.
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Scientists gathered samples from Pittsburgh, Pa., Barcelona, Spain and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to find traces of 17 viruses known to infect humans, such as the human adenovirus, Norwalk virus responsible for stomach flu, the human papillomavirus and the human polyomavirus, to name a few.
FOXNews.com 2011
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KI and WU polyomaviruses have been detected mainly in specimens from the respiratory tract while Merkel cell polyomavirus has been described in a very high percentage of Merkel cell carcinomas.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Silvia Bofill-Mas 2010
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Lymphotropic polyomavirus was not detected in any of the 13 sewage neither in 9 biosolid/sludge samples analyzed.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Silvia Bofill-Mas 2010
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JC polyomavirus and human adenoviruses were used as markers of human contamination in the samples.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Silvia Bofill-Mas 2010
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Recently, three new polyomaviruses (KI, WU and Merkel cell polyomavirus) have been reported to infect humans.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Silvia Bofill-Mas 2010
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Merkel cell polyomavirus was detected in 7/8 urban sewage samples collected and in 2/7 river water samples.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Silvia Bofill-Mas 2010
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