10-Letter Words Containing: IRUS

• Any of a group of DNA viruses, of the family Poxviridae, that cause pox diseases in vertebrates

• any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle; not known to be associated with any human disease

• any of a group of picornaviruses that are responsible for many upper respiratory infections

• Any virus of the genus Hantavirus, transmitted by aerosolized rodent excreta or rodent bites, especially the deer mouse. Hantaviruses cause Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS): incubation lasts for 1–5 weeks, sickness begins with fever and muscle aches, followed by shortness of breath and coughing.

• A virus genome, such as HIV, that integrates itself into the DNA of a host cell so as to be passively replicated along with the host genome.

• the virus causing poliomyelitis

• any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye

• Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth

• any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell