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African swine fever virus — Taxobox color = violet name = African swine fever virus image caption = Electron micrograph of a virus particle virus group = i familia = Asfarviridae genus = Asfivirus species = African swine fever virus African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the… … Wikipedia
African swine fever — n an acute highly contagious usu. fatal febrile disease that affects only swine (family Suidae), that resembles but is more severe than hog cholera, that is indigenous to Africa where wild swine (as the warthog and bushpig) act as natural… … Medical dictionary
African swine fever — ▪ animal disease also called warthog fever highly contagious and usually fatal viral disease of swine that is characterized by high fever, lesions, leukopenia (abnormally low count of white blood cells), elevated pulse and respiration… … Universalium
swine fever — noun Date: 1886 1. hog cholera 2. an acute highly contagious usually fatal disease of swine that is caused by a double stranded DNA virus (species African swine fever virus of the genus Asfivirus, family Asfarviridae), that resembles but is more… … New Collegiate Dictionary
african swine fever — noun Usage: usually capitalized A : an acute highly contagious usually fatal virus disease of swine that is caused by a spherical virus containing one linear double stranded molecule of DNA, that resembles but is more severe than hog cholera,… … Useful english dictionary
Classical swine fever — Virus classification Group: Group IV ((+)ssRNA) Family: Flaviviridae Genus … Wikipedia
virus — viruslike, adj. /vuy reuhs/, n., pl. viruses. 1. an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA … Universalium
ASF-Virus — Ohr eines vom ASF Virus befallenen Schweins Systematik Reich: Viren Ord … Deutsch Wikipedia
DNA virus — A DNA virus is a virus that has DNA as its genetic material and replicates using a DNA dependent DNA polymerase. The nucleic acid is usually double stranded DNA (dsDNA) but may also be single stranded DNA (ssDNA). DNA viruses belong to either… … Wikipedia
Fever — Although a fever technically is any body temperature above the normal of 98.6 degrees F. (37 degrees C.), in practice a person is usually not considered to have a significant fever until the temperature is above 100.4 degrees F (38 degrees C.).… … Medical dictionary
