Sentence examples for smallest virus from inspiring English sources

Biotic agents include life-forms that range in size from the smallest virus, measuring approximately 20 nanometres (0.000 000 8 inch) in diameter, to tapeworms that achieve lengths of 10 metres (33 feet).

Because all inoculated birds died, regardless of dose, the minimum infectious and lethal doses could not be calculated, but was less than 10 EID50, the smallest virus dose administered.

Due to their large sizes (diameters of 100 1000 Å) only nanosecond dynamics of the smallest virus capsid could be studied by atomistic-MD (Freddolino et al. 2006).

It is one of the smallest viruses known, not much larger than the viroids that cause disease in plants.

The genome of PCV2 is 1759 nucleotides long, making it one of the smallest viruses replicating autonomously in mammalian cells [ 3].

Viruses with circular single stranded DNA (ssDNA) genomes are the smallest viruses known to infect eukaryotes and are currently grouped into four families: Anelloviridae, Circoviridae, Geminiviridae and Nanoviridae (Virus Taxonomy: 2009, ICTV, http://www.ictvonline.org/virusTaxonomy.asp?version = 2009).

The challenge they've presented has always been that they're like a small virus floating around in the much larger streams of global travel and global culture.

Torque teno virus (TTV) is a small virus belongs to Anelloviridea family.

The documentary revealed new information about the small virus, called adeno-associated virus (AAV).

Furthermore, they revealed the formation of a ball-shaped tetramer with 24 binding sites distributed at its surface, resembling a small virus capsid.

If viritope acquisition is random, even a small virus population could result in the diversity of viritope sequences observed in this study.