| BNYVV | beet necrotic yellow vein virus |
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| BOP | buffalo orphan prototype [virus] |
| BPPV | benign paroxysmal positional vertigo; bovine paragenital papilloma virus |
| BPV | benign paroxysmal vertigo; benign positional vertigo; bioprosthetic valve; bovine papilloma virus |
| BTV | blue tongue virus |
| paravaccinia virus | A species of parapoxvirus causing a pox-like disease on udders of cows that may spread to milkers. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| marmoset virus | A herpesvirus obtained repeatedly from throat swabs and tissues of New World monkeys. (05 Mar 2000) |
| German measles virus | The type (and only) species of rubivirus causing acute infection in humans, primarily children and young adults. Humans are the only natural host. A live, attenuated vaccine is available for prophylaxis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Germiston virus | A virus in the genus Bunyavirus, family Bunyaviridae (05 Mar 2000) |
| masked virus | A virus ordinarily occurring in the host in a noninfective state, but which may be activated and demonstrated by special procedures such as blind passage in experimental animals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mason-pfiser monkey virus | The type species of type d retroviruses (retroviruses, type d) isolated from mammary carcinoma and normal tissues in rhesus monkeys. It appears to have evolved from a recombination between a murine b oncovirus and a primate c oncovirus related to the baboon endogenous virus. Mpmv induces simian aids (saids). (12 Dec 1998) |
| Mason-Pfiser virus | A D-type retrovirus in the subfamily Oncornaviridae that was isolated from a mammary carcinoma of a rhesus monkey. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicular exanthema of swine virus | The type species of the genus calicivirus, an RNA virus infecting pigs. The resulting infection is an acute febrile disease which is clinically indistinguishable from foot and mouth disease. Transmission is by contaminated food. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vesicular stomatitis-indiana virus | The type species of vesiculovirus causing a disease symptomatically similar to foot-and-mouth disease in cattle, horses, and pigs. It may be transmitted to other species including humans, where it causes influenza-like symptoms. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vesicular stomatitis virus | <virology> Rhabdovirus causing the disease soremouth in cattle. Widely used as a laboratory tool especially in studies on the spike glycoprotein as a model for the synthesis, post translational modification and export of membrane proteins. (18 Nov 1997) |
| parrot virus | An obsolete term for Chlamydia psittaci. Synonym: Pacheco's parrot disease virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cat distemper virus | A virus of the genus Parvovirus that causes panleukopenia; the virus infects all Felidae, raccoons and mink, but not dogs or other Canidae. Synonym: cat distemper virus, panleukopenia virus of cats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayaro virus | A virus of the genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae, causing epidemics of undifferentiated type fever in South America. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cattle plague virus | A species of morbillivirus causing cattle plague, a disease with high mortality. Sheep, goats, pigs, and other animals of the order artiodactyla can also be infected. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Catu virus | An arbovirus of the genus Bunyavirus, of the family Bunyaviridae; an agent of bunyavirus encephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |