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an infectious agent of small size and simple composition that can multiply only in the living cells of animals, plants or bacteria. In the strictest sense, viruses should not be considered organisms, because they are not free-living: they cannot reproduce and carry on metabolic processes without a host cell.
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(1) A minute organism not visible by light microscopy. A virus is an obligate parasite dependent on nutrients inside cells for its metabolic and reproductive needs. It consists of a strand of either deoxyribonucleic acid or ribonucleic acid, but not both, [inside] a protein covering called a capsid.1
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A infective agent with a specific structure and able to cause its own multiplication after infection of specific cell
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a very small agent (germ) that causes infection
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Any group of submicroscopic pathogens which multiply only in connection with living cells.
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