Adenovirus

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  • noun. Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.
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  • noun. Any virus of the family Adenoviridae, many of which are responsible for respiratory infections in humans
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  • noun. any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye
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    "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."
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