Robert R. Wagner
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Chairman and Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1967–96. Coeditor of Comprehensive Virology (19 vol.); The Viruses (26 vol.).
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Virus, infectious agent of small size and simple composition that can multiply only in living cells of animals, plants, or bacteria. The name is from a Latin word meaning “slimy liquid” or “poison.” The earliest indications of the biological nature of viruses came from studies in 1892 by the…
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