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Rhabdoviridae
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Rhabdoviridae /Rhab·do·vi·ri·dae/ (-vir´ĭ-de) the rhabdoviruses: a family of RNA viruses with a negative-sense single-stranded RNA genome, including the genera Vesiculovirus and Lyssavirus.
Rhab·do·vir·i·dae (rbd-vîr-d)
n.
A family of rod- or bullet-shaped RNA viruses of vertebrates, insects, and plants, including the rabies virus.

rhabdomyosarcoma (rab´dōmīō-särkō´m),
n a malignant tumor of striated, or voluntary, muscle.
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Rhabdomyosarcoma.
Rhabdoviridae
n one of the major ribonucleic acid virus families, to which the rabies virus belongs. Viruses have a single-stranded, nonsegmented, linear molecular structure with helical symmetry.

Rhabdoviridae
a family in the order Mononegavirales, of bullet-shaped, enveloped viruses with a single-strand negative sense RNA genome and a helical nucleocapsid. Two genera cause disease in animals: Vesiculovirus, which contains vesicular stomatitis virus, Lyssavirus, which contains rabies, Ephemerovirus, which causes bovine ephemeral fever virus and Norvirhabdovirus, which are the fish rhabdoviruses that cause viral hemorrhagic septicemia, infectious hemopoietic necrosis, spring viremia of carp.


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