| adenovirus |
A group of viruses responsible for a group of respiratory diseases (common cold, pneumonia, croup, bronchiolitis, and bronchitis), infections of the stomach and intestine (gastroenteritis), eyes (conjunctivitis), bladder (cystitis), and rashes. Patients with compromised immune systems are especially susceptible to severe complications of adenovirus infection.
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| adenovirus |
A virus that can cause respiratory and eye infections, and that is being investigated as a part of a strategy known as gene therapy. Adenovirus is used to deliver one of a number of genes that may have a role in treating cancer including melanoma, as well as other diseases.
Ãâó: www.melanomacenter.org/glossary.html
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| adenovirus |
A virus that causes clinical conditions such as the common cold and respiratory infections.
Ãâó: www.bscs.org/onco/glossary.htm
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| adenovirus |
A family of DNA viruses that is used as a vehicle for the delivery of genes in many forms of gene-therapy.
Ãâó: www.ifopa.org/glossary.html
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| adenovirus p. |
viral pneumonia caused by an adenovirus; it is usually mild, but in neonates and the immunocompromised it can be fatal. Characteristics range from interstitial inflammation without necrosis to a necrotizing bronchitis and bronchiolitis with desquamation that may occlude the lumen, and areas of hemorrhagic consolidation alternating with areas of atelectasis.
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