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It is called "variola virus" or "Human Pox virus", and Abele (Ah-Beh-Leh) in Farsi (as a symbol of ancient languages).
Variola virus is a DNA virus, classified so because it has a genome wholly made of DNA, in contrast to some other viruses which are RNA ones, such as AIDS virus or Influenza virus.
There are some other germs in the family of pox viruses (family poxviridae), namely cowpox virus (vaccinia virus), sheep pox (capripox) virus, monkeypox virus (a member of orthopox viruses) and avipoxvirus (the agent of fowlpox).
Smallpox has misnomination because it causes a very terrible disease of mankind inspite of the term small.
Fortunately, variola no longer exists in the nature and has been eradicated from the world since 1978 as a result of effective global vaccination. Some limited laboratory sources of this devastating human pox virus are stored in research centers of England and US and Russia for medical research which may be catastrophic if intentionally or unintentionally released to the community. For more information the reader may refer to "Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease" by Mandell, Vol 2, or contact me through m3mahdi@razi.tums.ac.ir.
M. Mahdi Mohammadi, LMD, MPH, PhD, Immunologist
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe shape of smallpox virus is ellipsoid, enveloped in a lipid bilayer membrane picked up from the host.
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∙ 11y agoVariola major and Variola minor. The two viruses that cause smallpox
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∙ 11y agoLooks like a cell on it's final stage of meiosis since it's a virus it spread very fast and if not for the doctors who found the cure it would of indeed killed the human race.
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∙ 12y agovariola virus
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Is smallpox virus or bacteria?
Smallpox was a virus.
An animal insect or human whose body is capable of sustaining the growth of a pathogen is known as what?
An animal, insect, or human whose body can sustain the growth of a pathogen is known as the pathogen's host.
Pathogen cultured from synovial fluid and urethral culture were gram-negative diplococci. what is the pathogen?
Nisseria Nisseria
What traps a pathogen?
antibodies
Is a virus an antigen?
no its a pathogen
What is pathogen of smallpox?
Smallpox is caused by a virus. The technical name for it is variola.
How does smallpox look like under a microscope?
If you mean what does the virus that causes Smallpox looks like, see the link below:
Can you say viruela for chickenpox?
No, "viruela" is not Spanish for chickenpox. Viruela is smallpox, while varicela is chickenpox in Spanish.
Do any other organisms carry smallpox?
Smallpox is a strictly human disease, it is not carried by animals. It is also extinct in the wild, although laboratory samples still exist.
What pathogen did edward Jenner use to make the smallpox vaccine?
He originally used the cowpox virus (Variolae vacciniae, "smallpox of the cow" in Latin). At some point the virus used mutated to a slightly different form now known as Vacciniavirus.It's not a coincidence that the word "vaccine" looks a lot like Vaccinia.
What does the yellow fever pathogen look like?
yellowfever mosquitoes cause the fever brought to the US by slaves comming from center Africa
What is a sentence using the word detest?
Use it like this in a sentence I detest smallpox. You detest smallpox We detest smallpox. He detests smallpox She detests smallpox It detests smallpox.
What is the mean of aggressive pathogen?
A pathogen is something that causes disease, like a bacteria, virus, fungus or prion for example.
What does smallpox looks like?
Anal beads
Jenner's one particularly important achievement?
Antisceptic, or is it Smallpox vaccine.... one or t'other. I'd better look it up.... Smallpox Vaccination using Cowpox it is.
Are white blood cell pathogen?
No white blood cells are not pathogens, they protect the human body from pathogens.
Can you prevent getting smallpox?
Well, I think there is a vaccine for smallpox. I'm not sure, so look it up somewhere else! you use cowpox has a counter balence effect
