Medical Definition of Paramyxoviridae
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Class V viruses of vertebrates. The genome consists of a single negative strand of RNA as one piece.
The helical nucleocapsid has a virus specific RNA polymerase (transcriptase) associated with it. They are enveloped viruses: main members are Newcastle disease virus, measles virus and the parainfluenza viruses.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paramyxoviridae
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