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U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Viruses

    Minute infectious agents whose genomes are composed of DNA or RNA, but not both. They are characterized by a lack of independent metabolism and the inability to replicate outside living host cells.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of viruses in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of viruses in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of viruses in a Sentence

  1. Pavlos Kontides:

    If you have lots of rain then the favelas are flooded and all the rubbish comes into the sea where we are sailing, these are the physical materials you can see but( also) you have a lot of viruses you can not see.

  2. Stanton Glantz:

    Vaping affects your lungs at every level. It affects the immune function in your nasal cavity by affecting cilia which push foreign things out... [ T ] he ability of your upper airways to clear viruses is compromised.

  3. Lynnette Brammer:

    There are predominantly influenza A viruses out there, there are a few influenza Bs.

  4. Kevin Kobylinski:

    We were drinking beers and discussing the difficulties in working in Africa with no electricity or running water, his research team was there to study obscure viruses that affect people in that region. I mentioned that we probably had one of these lesser-known viruses and described the results that we had received from the CDC and the symptoms that we had. He told me he thought it could potentially be Zika virus.

  5. Andrew Pekosz:

    As mutations come up in viruses, the ones that persist are the ones that make it easier for the virus to spread in the population, every time the viruses changes, that gives the virus a different platform to add more mutations. Now we have viruses that spread more efficiently.

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