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Adenoviridae is
a family of viruses that have vertebrate hosts. This form of the virus is
icosahedral with 70-100 nm virion diameter and 36-38kb genome. Adenoviridae has
two genera namely Mastadenovirus and Aviadenovirus.
This type of virus was first
discovered by Rowe in 1953. Adenoviridae infects many humans and becomes latent
in lymphoid tissue, but also has the ability of oncogenesis in animals try
rodensia.
Adenoviridae mostly attacks
children and military people by infecting the respiratory tract, eye
infections, inflammation of the bladder that causes haematuria, and
encephalitis.
Treatment is usually rarely
done to the public, oral vaccine attenuation is only given to the military.
Antiviral commonly given to treat is ribavirin cidofovir, but the results are
not too promising. Provision of live vaccines can lead to the spread of
infection.
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