rhabdovirus

rhabdovirus
/rab"doh vuy'reuhs/, n., pl. rhabdoviruses.
any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
[1965-70; RHABDO- + VIRUS]

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Any of a group of viruses responsible for rabies and vesicular stomatitis (an acute disease of cattle and horses, characterized by blisters in and about the mouth, that resembles foot-and-mouth disease).

The bullet-shaped virus particle is encased in a fatty membrane and contains RNA.

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▪ virus group
      any of a group of viruses constituting the family Rhabdoviridae, responsible for rabies and vesicular stomatitis of cattle and horses. The virus particle is enveloped in a fatty membrane; is bullet-shaped, 70 by 180 nanometres (nm; 1 nm = 10-9 metre); and contains a single helical strand of ribonucleic acid (RNA). See also rabies; vesicular stomatitis.

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