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Is the shingles a DNA or RNA virus?

Updated: 9/7/2023

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Shingles is a disease caused by a reactivated varicella-zoster virus, the one responsible for chickenpox and it belongs to the herpesvirus superfamily where all of them are DNA viruses.

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The rabies virus has an RNA based genome which is about 12Kb in size.

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Rabies have RNA for their nucleic acid

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