| SWA | seriously wounded in action; slow-wave activity |
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| SWE | slow wave encephalography |
| SWS | slow-wave sleep; spike-wave stupor; steroid-wasting syndrome; Sturge-Weber syndrome |
| RS virus | Respiratory Synthitial virus |
| AmuLV | Abelson murine leukemia virus; amphotrophic murine leukemia virus |
| Russian spring-summer encephalitis virus | An arbovirus of the genus Flavivirus that occurs in Central Europe and the USSR in two subtypes, causing two forms of encephalitis in humans: tick-borne encephalitis (Central European subtype) and tick-borne encephalitis (Eastern subtype); the vectors are ticks of the genus Ixodes. Synonym: Russian spring-summer encephalitis virus, tick-borne virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| milker's nodule virus | A virus in the family Poxviridae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mink enteritis virus | A parvovirus that causes enteritis of mink. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mm virus | A strain of encephalomyocarditis virus, a species of cardiovirus, causing neurological disease in the mouse. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Mokola virus | A rabies related virus of the genus Lyssavirus, family Rhabdoviridae, first isolated from shrews (Crocidura spp.) in Nigeria, which has caused fatal neurological disease in man and cats in Africa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pichinde virus | A species of arenavirus, one of the tacaribe complex viruses, causing a fatal infection in the cricetine rodent oryzomys albigularis. Asymptomatic laboratory infection in humans has been reported. (12 Dec 1998) |
| molluscum contagiosum virus | A species of molluscipoxvirus causing skin lesions in humans. It is transmitted by direct contact or from non-living reservoirs (fomites), such as books or clothing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| moloney leukaemia virus | A murine virus arising during the propagation of s37 mouse sarcoma, and causing lymphoid leukaemia in mice. It also infects rats and newborn hamsters and is apparently transmitted vertically to embryos in utero and through mother's milk. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Moloney murine leukaemia virus | <molecular biology, virology> Replication competent retrovirus (Oncovirinae) that causes leukaemia in mice, isolated by Moloney from cell free extracts made from a transplantable mouse sarcoma. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Moloney murine sarcoma virus | <molecular biology, virology> Replication defective retrovirus, source of the oncogene v mos, responsible for inducing fibrosarcomas in vivo and transforming cells in culture. (18 Nov 1997) |
| moloney sarcoma virus | A replication-defective murine sarcoma virus (sarcoma viruses, murine) isolated from a rhabdomyosarcoma by moloney in 1966. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Moloney's virus | A lymphoid leukaemia retrovirus of mice, in the subfamily Oncovirinae, isolated originally during propagation of S 37 mouse sarcoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Coe virus | <virology> A virus serologically identical with the A-21 strain of coxsackievirus; the cause of a common cold-like disease in military recruits. (05 Mar 2000) |
| monkey B virus | A herpesvirus, in the family Herpesviridae, affecting Old World monkeys, that is very similar morphologically to herpes simplex virus; fatal infection may occur in humans following the bite of an infected monkey, although other modes of transmission have also been documented. Synonym: monkey B virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| monkeypox virus | A species of orthopoxvirus causing an epidemic disease among captive primates. (12 Dec 1998) |