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- noun Plural form of
myxovirus .
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He found that the filamentous forms of some viruses (e.g. those of myxoviruses such as those which cause influenza, mumps, fowl plague, and Newcastle disease) can be ruptured by suspending them in water, and suggested that their infectivity is limited to their tips, so that these filamentous forms can, as later work showed, be regarded as having an infective «warhead» composed of nucleic acid and a long tail composed of non-infective viral haemagglutinin.
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Taber LH, Wells CR, Wells JM, Glezen WP, et al. (1981) Patterns of shedding of myxoviruses and paramyxoviruses in children.
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