• helper virus is a virus that allows an otherwise-deficient coinfecting virus to replicate. These can be naturally occurring as with Hepatitis D virus...
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  • A helper dependent virus, also termed a gutless virus, is a synthetic viral vector dependent on the assistance of a helper virus in order to replicate...
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    helper virus for its replication. Satellites can be divided into two major groups: satellite viruses and satellite nucleic acids. Satellite viruses,...
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    that, despite being present in people infected by helper viruses such as adenovirus or herpes virus, AAV itself did not cause any disease. Wild-type AAV...
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    The T helper cells (Th cells), also known as CD4+ cells or CD4-positive cells, are a type of T cell that play an important role in the adaptive immune...
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  • their helper viruses; while they are sometimes considered to be genomic elements of their helper viruses, they are not always found within their helper viruses...
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    infected by a certain helper virus; Sputnik uses the helper virus's machinery for reproduction and inhibits replication of the helper virus. It is known as...
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    a group of small DNA viruses that infect protists and require a helper virus to replicate; they are a type of satellite virus. Discovered in 2013 in...
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    Saccharomyces cerevisiae virus L-A, also called L-A helper virus, is a member of the Totivirus genus of viruses found primarily in Saccharomyces cerevisiae...
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  • Virusoid (category Unaccepted virus taxa)
    Virusoids are essentially viroids that have been encapsulated by a helper virus coat protein. They are thus similar to viroids in their means of replication...
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    penetrate host cells, but requires another fully functional virus particle (the 'helper' virus) to co-infect a cell with it, in order to provide the lost...
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  • group-specific antigen helical helper dependent virus helper virus Any virus which aids or allows the replication of a coinfecting virus that is incapable of replicating...
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    following species: Totivirus go Totivirus hachi Totivirus ichi (L-A helper virus) Totivirus jyu Totivirus jyugo Totivirus jyuhachi Totivirus jyuichi Totivirus...
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  • security advisory organizations and anti-virus software developers compile and publish virus lists. When a new virus appears, the rush begins to identify...
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  • dependovirus. A highly efficient helper virus commonly used when growing A-MuLV in vitro is Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MuLV). It causes leukemia directly...
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    Viral vector (redirect from Virus construct)
    cells. AAVs, however, require the presence of a "helper virus" such as an adenovirus or herpes simplex virus to replicate within the host, although it can...
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    as the helper virus. These helper viruses are necessary for the replication of a dependoparvovirus. A common helper virus in humans is the adenovirus...
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    A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals...
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    replicated and can be transmitted to offspring during reproduction. Biological viruses can replicate, but only by commandeering the reproductive machinery of...
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    genus Orthoflavivirus, which also contains the Zika virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus. The virus is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes, mostly species...
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    Ribozyviria (category Virus realms)
    nucleic acids — infectious agents that resemble viruses, but cannot replicate without a helper virus. Established in ICTV TaxoProp 2020.012D, the realm...
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  • oncogenic or transforming retroviruses are capable of replication without a helper virus, making non-defective strains of RSV quite unique. The RSV genome has...
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    referring to mRNA synthesis from a viral RNA molecule. The genome of many RNA viruses is composed of negative-sense RNA which acts as a template for positive...
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    one of the most common viruses in humans. EBV is a double-stranded DNA virus. EBV is the first identified oncogenic virus, a virus that can cause cancer...
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  • helper virus to replicate. Phaeocystis globosa virus virophage has a parasitic relationship with its helper virus species Phaeocystis globosa virus (PgV)...
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    The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency...
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  • tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV), a bipartite begomovirus with betasatellites, results in enhanced level of helper virus components and antagonistic...
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  • VirusTotal is a website created by the Spanish security company Hispasec Sistemas. Launched in June 2004, it was acquired by Google in September 2012...
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    "infected" with a computer virus, a metaphor derived from biological viruses. Computer viruses generally require a host program. The virus writes its own code...
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    Norovirus (redirect from Norwalk virus)
    Norovirus, also known as Norwalk virus and sometimes referred to as the winter vomiting disease, is the most common cause of gastroenteritis. Infection...
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