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Descriptor English: Measles virus
Descriptor Spanish: Virus del Sarampión
Descriptor virus del sarampión
Entry term(s) virus de Edmonston
Scope note: Especie típica de MORBILLIVIRUS y causa de una enfermedad altamente infecciosa en el humano, el SARAMPIÓN, que afecta fundamentalmente a niños.
Descriptor Portuguese: Vírus do Sarampo
Descriptor French: Virus de la rougeole
Entry term(s): Edmonston virus
Tree number(s): B04.820.480.937.600.650.500.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008459
Scope note: The type species of MORBILLIVIRUS and the cause of the highly infectious human disease MEASLES, which affects mostly children.
Annotation: "morbilli virus" sometimes refers to the MEASLES VIRUS & sometimes to the genus Morbillivirus: check text; infection = MEASLES
Allowable Qualifiers: CH chemistry
CL classification
DE drug effects
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PH physiology
PY pathogenicity
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
Related: Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis MeSH
DeCS ID: 8628
Unique ID: D008459
NLM Classification: QW 168.5.P2
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2015/06/23
Measles virus - Preferred
Concept UI M0013154
Scope note The type species of MORBILLIVIRUS and the cause of the highly infectious human disease MEASLES, which affects mostly children.
Preferred term Measles virus
Edmonston virus - Narrower
Concept UI M0383594
Scope note A strain of Measles virus.
Preferred term Edmonston virus



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