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Virus vs Metapneumovirus - What's the difference?

virus | metapneumovirus |


As nouns the difference between virus and metapneumovirus

is that virus is virus while metapneumovirus is any of a group of viruses (genus ) responsible for some respiratory infection in humans and birds.

Virus vs Rhabdovirus - What's the difference?

virus | rhabdovirus |


As nouns the difference between virus and rhabdovirus

is that virus is virus while rhabdovirus is any of the rod-shaped viruses belonging to the family rhabdoviridae .

Virus vs Orf - What's the difference?

virus | orf |


As nouns the difference between virus and orf

is that virus is virus while orf is (obsolete) cattle or orf can be (label) an exanthemous disease caused by a parapox virus, occurring primarily in sheep and goats but also capable of infecting humans or orf can be (the fish).

Virus vs Fomite - What's the difference?

virus | fomite |


As nouns the difference between virus and fomite

is that virus is virus while fomite is (medicine|epidemiology) an inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses and parasites), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts.

Virus vs Hepadnavirus - What's the difference?

virus | hepadnavirus |


As nouns the difference between virus and hepadnavirus

is that virus is virus while hepadnavirus is any member of the virus family , capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.

Virus vs Viropexis - What's the difference?

virus | viropexis |


As nouns the difference between virus and viropexis

is that virus is venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc while viropexis is the process whereby certain viruses become attached to a cell wall and are incorporated into the cell by phagocytosis.

Virus vs Xmrv - What's the difference?

virus | xmrv | abbreviation |

Virus is an abbreviation of xmrv.


As a noun virus

is virus.

As an abbreviation xmrv is

, a virus isolated from humans.

Virus vs Antigenome - What's the difference?

virus | antigenome |


As nouns the difference between virus and antigenome

is that virus is venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc while antigenome is the complementary strand of RNA from which the genome of a virus is constructed.

Virus vs Xenotropic - What's the difference?

virus | xenotropic |


As a noun virus

is virus.

As an adjective xenotropic is

(biology) describing a virus growing in tissue of an organism other than its normal host.

Virus vs Geminivirus - What's the difference?

virus | geminivirus |


As nouns the difference between virus and geminivirus

is that virus is virus while geminivirus is any of a group of plant viruses, of the family geminiviridae , that have ambisense single-stranded circular dna genomes.

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