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n. - Causative agents of an infectious animal disease.

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  • My abiding interest in infectious disease caused me to focus on the tickborne flavivirus, louping-ill virus, which was then regarded as problematic because of concerns...
  • This mosquito was also a carrier of the flavivirus that caused dengue.
  • The process has been studied in some detail in dengue fever, a related flavivirus.
  • The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a flavivirus replicating in the cytoplasm of infected cells.
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