A family of double-stranded DNA viruses infecting mammals (including humans), birds and insects. There are two subfamilies: CHORDOPOXVIRINAE, poxviruses of vertebrates, and ENTOMOPOXVIRINAE, poxviruses of insects.
Synonyms: Poxviruses, Poxviridae, txid10240
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a family of DNA viruses; infection = POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS ,use POXVIRIDAE to search POXVIRUSES 1975-80 & POXVIRUS 1966-74 ,81; was POXVIRUSES 1975-80, was POXVIRUS 1963-74
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D011212
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