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papovavirus

 [pah-po´vah-vi″rus]
any member of a group of small ether-resistant DNA viruses; this term is no longer used in official viral nomenclature. The species that infect humans are all papillomaviruses.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

pa·po·va·vi·rus

(pă-pō'vă-vī'rŭs),
An older name for any virus of the family Papovaviridae.
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papovavirus

(pə-pō′və-vī′rəs)
n. pl. papovavi·ruses
A former family of DNA viruses that included the papillomaviruses and polyomaviruses.
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papovavirus

 A family of small icosahedral double-stranded DNA viruses–eg, SV40 and polyomavirus, which induce benign and malignant neoplasms
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

pa·po·va·vi·rus

(pă-pō'vă-vī'rŭs)
Any virus of the family Papovaviridae.
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papovavirus

A member of the family of viruses that includes the human wart (papilloma) viruses.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
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A review on JC virus infection in kidney transplant recipients
A 974-nt region of monkey B-lymphotropic papovavirus (reference sequence M30540.1 from the VP1 coding sequence) was aligned with corresponding regions from the polyomaviruses available in GenBank.
An African green monkey polyomavirus, also known as monkey B-lymphotropic papovavirus, or LPV, was isolated >30 years ago (15) from a lymphoblastoid cell line derived from the African green monkey.
Human polyomavirus related to African green monkey lymphotropic polyomavirus
Induction of lymphomas by the hamster papovavirus correlates with massive replication of nonrandomly deleted extrachromosomal viral genomes.
Merkel cell polyomavirus strains in patients with Merkel cell carcinoma
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