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Viruses > DNA Viruses > Poxviridae > Chordopoxvirinae > Molluscipoxvirus

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Molluscipoxvirus  

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Note

  • a genus of the subfamily Chordopoxvirinae; mollusci- refers to agent of the disease molluscum contagiosum, not to mollusks; infection: coord IM with POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS (IM)

Scope note

  • A genus of POXVIRIDAE, subfamily CHORDOPOXVIRINAE, infecting humans. Transmission is by direct contact among children, by sexual contact among young adults, or by fomites. MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM VIRUS is the type species.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018169

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