Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.
Wiktionary
- n. Any virus of the family Adenoviridae, many of which are responsible for respiratory infections in humans
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye
Etymologies
- adeno(id) + virus (from its having first been found in adenoid tissue). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I started to work eagerly on the induction of specific chromosomal aberrations in adenovirus type 12-infected human cells, simultaneously studying a DNA-replication disturbance of individual chromosomes in human lymphoblastoid and lymphoma cell lines, and, to please my mentor, I demonstrated electron microscopically the presence of EBV particles directly in individual serologically antigen-positive Burkitt's lymphoma cells.”
“What this is this is an illness that's called adenovirus, which is a fancy way of saying the common cold virus.”
“Later this year another viral vector, this time using a virus called adenovirus, will enter advanced clinical testing.”
“Roberts and Sharp were studying the genetic material in adenovirus, a virus causing common cold.”
“But using the cold bug, called adenovirus, as the vehicle for delivering genes to the heart has drawbacks.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Pacemaker Without Wires or Batteries
“The researchers used weakened versions of two viruses commonly used in vaccine development -- a common cold virus called an adenovirus and a smallpox virus -- to deliver the primate version of the HIV antigen into the body and trigger an immune response.”
“At Merck, in the mid-'90s, he worked on a vaccine, adding HIV genes to the "adenovirus" that causes the common cold.”
“At the time, doctors revealed only that the vaccine — which uses an "adenovirus," or the common cold virus, to deliver HIV genes into the body — had not worked.”
“Researchers believe that an airborne "adenovirus" germ could be causing the fat plague that is blighting Britain and other countries.”
“Professor Nikhil Dhurandhar, of Pennington Biomedical Research Centre in Louisiana, believes that an airborne "adenovirus" germ may be causing the fat plague that is blighting Britain and other countries.”
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Small but deadly
Vituperative viruses : vindictive and vicious. This list doesn't even touch on the havoc wrought by bacteria, parasites, and prions.
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