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Viruses > DNA Viruses > DNA Tumor Viruses
Viruses > Oncogenic Viruses > DNA Tumor Viruses

Preferred term

DNA Tumor Viruses  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; infection: coordinate with TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS

Scope note

  • DNA viruses producing malignant tumors. Of the six major groupings of DNA viruses four contain members which are actually or potentially oncogenic: the Adenoviridae, the Herpesviridae, the Papovaviridae, and the Poxviridae.

History note

  • 78

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004263

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