How to Use poxvirus in a Sentence

poxvirus

noun

• The vaccine is not made from the smallpox virus, but from a poxvirus similar to smallpox.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 26 June 2022
• The vaccine is made from a live virus called vaccinia, which is a poxvirus that is similar to smallpox but less harmful.
  — Laurie McGinley, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• The vaccine is made with live vaccinia virus, a poxvirus similar to but less harmful than smallpox.
  — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• The vaccine contains a live poxvirus, similar but less harmful than smallpox.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2017
• Some of them, including Makofane, are also working to scale up diagnostics, and map the networks that have allowed the poxvirus to spread.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
• How does a poxvirus gain that much new genetic information?
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Monkeypox is a poxvirus, related to smallpox and cowpox.
  — Virginia Langmaid, CNN, 5 Aug. 2022
• More alarming, perhaps, is the potential that someone outside the world of known biolabs might cook up a version of a poxvirus, using the tools of genetic engineering.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• Monkeypox belongs to the poxvirus family, which includes smallpox.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 21 May 2022
• Some scientists had argued that the viruses behind the current outbreak should be identified as a separate, third clade, but many poxvirus specialists contended that the outbreak strain was not its own clade.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 17 Aug. 2022
• Once the researchers glued the full genome together and introduced it into cells infected by another type of poxvirus, the cells began to produce infectious particles.
  — Emily Baumgaertner, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• Vaccinia turns out to be most genetically similar to another poxvirus called horsepox.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2022
• In past outbreaks involving this poxvirus, animals — especially rodents — have been the primary source of transmission to humans.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• Gaining approximately 2,800 base pairs from some unknown poxvirus, this hybrid strain expresses several new genes compared to the original virus.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• In another study, Messaoudi and colleagues provided rhesus monkeys access to alcoholic beverages for seven months and then looked at how their bodies responded to a vaccine against poxvirus.
  — Anahad O’Connor New York Times, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
• The eradication of smallpox in 1980 and the cessation of use of smallpox vaccine — which offers some protection against monkeypox — created an ecological void experts feared another poxvirus might fill.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 May 2022
• Monkeypox is a specific poxvirus that was discovered among laboratory monkeys in 1958.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 28 July 2022
• Previous studies have found that dolphins are vulnerable to skin ailments like poxvirus infections or fungal diseases like lobomycosis, Science reports.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024