How to Use herpesvirus in a Sentence

herpesvirus

noun

• The herpesvirus is probably not a good way to go in people.
  — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2012
• It’s a herpesvirus, one of the group that causes herpes, chickenpox, and glandular fever in humans.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2012
• Nearly all of us contract a herpesvirus during our lives, via nonsexual spread.
  — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
• And genes that seemed to make tissues more susceptible to harm from the herpesviruses were expressed most strongly in two brain areas that are especially damaged in Alzheimer’s, Dr. Dudley said.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• Chickens, for example, routinely get vaccinated for Marek’s disease, which caused by a herpesvirus.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
• Low levels of human adenovirus and human herpesvirus 6 were found in the liver in most cases, which the authors similarly speculate enabled AAV2 replication and liver damage.
  — Janelle Chavez, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• Urogenital carcinoma, present in a quarter of sea lions necropsied in California, is definitively caused by a herpesvirus.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• The other flavor has tails and primarily infects bacteria and archaea but also contains the herpesvirus family, which infects animals.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
• To investigate that hypothesis, Edgar and her collaborators exposed mice to herpesvirus at different times.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 May 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024