Lyssavirus

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Lyssavirus

virus genus

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…cattle, swine, and equines, and Lyssavirus, which includes the causative agent of rabies. Family Filoviridae Enveloped virions, variably elongated filaments 650–1,400 nm in length and pleomorphic in shape, containing a helical nucleocapsid with single-stranded negative-sense RNA (about 19 kilobases in length) and an endogenous RNA polymerase. Much
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…cattle, swine, and equines, and Lyssavirus, which includes the causative agent of rabies. Family Filoviridae Enveloped virions, variably elongated filaments 650–1,400 nm in length and pleomorphic in shape, containing a helical nucleocapsid with single-stranded negative-sense RNA (about 19 kilobases in length) and an endogenous RNA polymerase. Much
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