CVB3 is a type
of picornavirus, a family of rapidly mutating small RNA viruses that causes illnesses ranging from the common cold to pancreatitis to polio.
Not exact matches
The viruses that cause FMD (members
of a diverse family
of small RNA viruses called
picornaviruses) are not all that deadly; they can cause fatal cardiac arrest in young animals, but most adult animals recover.
Clearance
of a persistent
picornavirus infection is associated with enhanced pro-apoptotic and cellular immune responses.
These peptides, first discovered in
picornaviruses, are short (about 20 amino acids) and produce equimolar levels
of mulitple genes from the same mRNA.