picornavirus
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picornavirus
Any of a group of the smallest known animal viruses. (Pico refers to their small size, rna to their core of RNA.) This group of spheroidal viruses includes viruses that attack the vertebrate intestinal tract and often invade the central nervous system as well (such as polioviruses), viruses that infect tissues in the vertebrate nose (rhinoviruses), and the virus agent of foot-and-mouth disease.
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picornavirus
any RNA animal virus consisting of naked, icosahedral 27 nm capsids with single-stranded infectious RNA (plus strand) of 2.7 MDa. The group includes human poliovirus, some common-cold viruses, and foot-and-mouth disease virus (of cattle and other cloven-footed mammals).
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