Paramyxovirus (mumps)

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canalon 15 years, 10 months ago

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- March 31, 2009 at 7:22 pm #11152
  Mikey
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  I am doing a project on Mumps, and the virus which causes mumps. Are there any recommended websites to look on that are trustworthy?
- March 31, 2009 at 7:35 pm #89957
  canalon
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  you could start here, it is definitely a trustwothy source, with links to first hand scientific data:
  http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi … uery=mumps
- April 1, 2009 at 12:16 pm #89962
  Sepals
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  Health protection agency.
- April 7, 2009 at 7:28 pm #90041
  Mikey
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  Is the Paramyxovirus only contagious to humans? Can it infect any other cells?
- April 8, 2009 at 12:28 pm #90052
  Sepals
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  Have you googled it? Because I have and the answer is in the first link. I feel like sharing so here it is:
  http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/mhunt/mump-meas.htm
- April 8, 2009 at 7:29 pm #90065
  Mikey
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  I did google it, and I did get an answer like that, but one textbook said that it occurs in most vertebrates… so that’s what confused me…
- April 9, 2009 at 3:44 am #90071
  canalon
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  I think that you have to realize that the Mumps causing virus is only one of the paramyxovirus (or more correctly: belonging to the paramyxoviridae family of virus). The virus causing Mumps is specific to human, but in the paramyxovirus family, other member infect other vertebrates. For more details you can start here:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramyxovirus
  and then read the differents links and references.
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