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n. - A group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat.

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  • By this translation enhancement such an internal picornavirus IRES reduces possible effects of mutations or inhibitors of translation.
  • The disease does not spread to humans but there is an identically named human illness that is caused by another member of the picornavirus family.
  • Surprisingly, the polyhedrin subunits are more similar to picornavirus coat proteins than to the polyhedrin of cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV).
  • Furthermore, we recently demonstrated CPMV bioavailability and systemic tissue trafficking in mouse CPMV is a comovirus in the picornavirus superfamily, and infects the...
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