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n. - Any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects.

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  • The case involved a biotechnology tool known as a CMV Promoter, which was invented by UI microbiology professor Mark Stinski.
  • Information indicating that the CMV was the major cause of damaging viral congenital infections was obtained by many virologists.
  • An example of an overloaded species acronym is "CMV," which in the NCBI taxonomy is mapped to "Cucumber mosaic virus."
  • One of my students just gave a wonderful speech on CMV.
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