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Parvoviridae
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Human parvovirus B19. 5th disease (only in children); anemia in immunocompromised partients.
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Adenoviridae
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Mastadenovirus; medium-sized viruses that cause various respiratory infections in humansl some cause tumors in animals.
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Papovaviridae
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Papillomavirus (human wart virus) and Polyomavirus. Small viruses that induce tumors; the human wart virus (papilloma) and certain viruses that produce cancer in animals (polyoma and simian) belong to this family.
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Poxviridae
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Orthopoxvirus (vaccinia and smallpox viruses) and Molluscipoxvirus. Very large, complex, brick-shaped viruses that cause diseases such as smallpox (variola), molluscum contagiosum (wartlike skin lesion), and cowpox.
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Herpesviridae
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Simplexvirus (HHV-1 and 2), Varicellovirus (HHV-3), Lymphocryptovirus (HHV-4), Cytomegalovirus (HHV-5), Roseolovirus (HHV-6), HHV-7, Kaposi's sarcoma (HHV-8). Medium-sized viruses that cause carious human disease, such as fever blisters, chickenpox/shingles, and infectious monnucleosis; causes a type of human cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma.
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Hepadnaviridae
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Hep. B Virus. After protein synthesis, hep B virus uses reverse transcriptase to produce its DNA from mRNA; causes hep B and liver tumors
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Picornaviridae
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Entervirus, Rhinovirus, (common cold virus), Hep A virus (liver). At lease 70 enteroviruses are known including the polio-, coxsackie-, and echo- viruses; more than 100 rhinoviruses exist and are the most common cause of colds
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Caliciviridae
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Hep E Virus, Norovirus. Includes causes of gastoenteritis and 1 cause of human hep.
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Togaviridae
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Alphavirus, Rubivirus (rubella virus). Included are many viruses transmitted by arthropods (alphavirus); diseases include eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and western e.e. (WEE). Rubella virus is transmitted by the respiratory route.
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Flaviviridae
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Flavivirus, Pestivirus, Hep C Virus. Can replicate in arthropods that transmit them; diseases include yellow fever dengue and St. Louis and West Nile encephalitis.
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Coronavirus
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Coronavirus. Associated with URTI and the common cold; SARS virus.
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Deltaviridae
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Hep. D. Depend on coinfection with hepadnavirus.
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Orthomyxoviridae
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Influenza A, B, and C (many strains). Envelope spikes can agglutinate RBCs
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Retroviridae
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Oncoviruses [ Lentivirus (HIV) ]. Includes all RNA tumor viruses. Oncoviruses cause leukemia and tumors in animals; the Lentivirus HIV causes AIDS
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