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- adjective virology Without a viral envelope.
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In the lab, writes its inventor, Todd Rider of MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, "we have demonstrated that Dracos are effective against viruses with DNA, dsRNA, positive-sense ssRNA, and negative-sense ssRNA genomes; enveloped and nonenveloped viruses; viruses that replicate in the cytoplasm and viruses that replicate in the nucleus; human, bat and rodent viruses; and viruses that use a variety of cellular receptors."
Modifying Mother Nature to Kill Nasty Viruses Matt Ridley 2011
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Other methods that result in inactivation of picornaviruses and other nonenveloped viruses include sodium hypochlorite, formaldehyde, and proteinase K.
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Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are nonenveloped viruses with a double-stranded circular DNA genome
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