单词 | slow virus |
释义 | > as lemmasslow virus slow virus n. Medicine any virus or virus-like agent that causes a slow virus disease (see sense 11b); (in later use) esp. a lentivirus; also as a modifier. ΚΠ 1965 D. C. Gajdusek et al. Slow, Latent, & Temperate Virus Infections (U.S. Dept. Health: National Inst. Neurol. Dis. & Blindness) 357/1 The importance of this type of infectious entity and the group of slow viruses is firmly established. 1977 Sci. Amer. May 140/2 A dozen fatal diseases of the human central nervous system stand suspect of slow-virus origin. 2006 M. B. Gardner in H. Friedman et al. In vivo Models HIV Dis. & Control i. 8 Visna virus was the prototype ‘slow virus’, responsible in the 1950s for wiping out all of the sheep in Iceland. < as lemmas |
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