Definition of "adenovirus" []

• Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans. (noun)

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• "I started to work eagerly on the induction of specific chromosomal aberrations in adenovirus type 12-infected human cells, simultaneously studying a DNA-replication disturbance of individual chromosomes in human lymphoblastoid and lymphoma cell lines, and, to please my mentor, I demonstrated electron microscopically the presence of EBV particles directly in individual serologically antigen-positive Burkitt's lymphoma cells."
• "What this is this is an illness that's called adenovirus, which is a fancy way of saying the common cold virus."
• "Later this year another viral vector, this time using a virus called adenovirus, will enter advanced clinical testing."