OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 50872

poliovirus

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poliovirus
A human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family that causes poliomyelitis.
By now Jameson, a victim of polio, was confined to a wheelchair; most likely he'd contracted the poliovirus from an East German defector whom he interrogated in 1955.
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