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rhabdovirus

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rhabdovirus

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.


rhabdovirus [¦rab·dō′vī·rəs]
(virology)
A group of ribonucleic acid-containing animal viruses, including rabies virus and certain infective agents of fish and insects.


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Rabies belongs to a branch of the Rhabdovirus family known as Lyssavirus.
Six isolates were found by CF test to be indistinguishable from Barur virus, a rhabdovirus.
 
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