Measles virus

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Name (Hebrew)
וירוס חצבת
Name (Latin)
Measles virus
Name (Arabic)
فيروس الحصبة
Other forms of name
Morbilli virus (Measles virus)
See Also From tracing topical name
Morbilliviruses
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q573943
Library of congress: sh 85082699
Sources of Information
  • MeSH browser, Sept. 20, 2006(Measles virus. Note: "morbilli virus" sometimes refers to the measles virus and sometime to the genus Morbillivirus)
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Wikipedia description:

The measles virus (MV), with scientific name Morbillivirus hominis, is a single-stranded, negative-sense, enveloped, non-segmented RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus within the family Paramyxoviridae. It is the cause of measles. Humans are the natural hosts of the virus; no animal reservoirs are known to exist.

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