noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer virus (= a program that secretly destroys information stored on computers )
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Computer viruses do a lot of damage every single day.
a flu virus/bug
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the spread of the flu virus
computer virus
deadly disease/virus
mystery virus
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a mystery virus
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
anti
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This is a real bonus considering that anti-virus software is often responsible for slowing down your computer.
chronic
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The mechanism responsible for secretion or intracellular retention of pre-S peptides in chronic hepatitis B virus infection is uncertain.
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The association between chronic hepatitis C virus infection and hepatocellular carcinoma has been described, although the exact oncogenic mechanism is unknown.
deadly
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Ashe has known since 1988 that he had the deadly virus .
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For those who are not yet infected with this deadly virus , remaining uninfected is very important, and very possible.
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Together with other treatments -- in a so-called drug cocktail -- they can reduce levels of the deadly virus to near zero.
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He is the man carrying the deadly virus .
ebola
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In fact, the Ebola virus might get a friendlier reception.
hiv
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They distort his speeches and offer simplistic interpretations of his equating the HIV virus with poverty and inequality.
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Combination therapies, including protease inhibitors, offer new hope for thousands with the HIV virus .
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It is about Aids, and the way the HIV virus is devastating his country.
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Researchers found that therapy can significantly reduce the amount of HIV virus in gay men suffering from the disease.
human
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The earliest known specimen of the human immunodeficiency virus was found long after the death of its victim.
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The human immunodeficiency virus is not airborne; it is not easily spread.
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It remains to be seen whether vaccines or chemotherapy will play a greater part in controlling the human immunodeficiency virus .
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They said there needed to be more research done, especially on people recently infected with the human immunodeficiency virus .
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HIV-1, human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
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However it began, the human immunodeficiency virus must be far older than any of its extant strains.
live
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It is particularly important to check about vaccinations because many of them contain live virus .
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They had to cultivate the live virus so they could fully study it.
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Some of the first batches were thrown out because tests showed they may have contained live virus .
■ NOUN
aids
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Yet they are the only animal known in whose bloodstream the AIDS virus survives for any length of time.
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Evidence shows that the AIDS virus may also attack the nervous system, causing damage to the brain.
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They are the 8 % of the population who have the Aids virus .
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He draws a blood sample from Dan and heads out to have it tested for the AIDS virus .
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Blood that has been collected for use is tested for the presence of antibody to the AIDS virus .
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The more partners you have, the greater the risk of becoming infected with the AIDS virus .
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Nevertheless, the theoretical risk of oral transmission of the AIDS virus exIsts and needs to be considered.
computer
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A computer virus A watch with a second hand doing double time.
flu
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In Wiltshire, a doctor has died from the flu virus .
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One of the best natural examples of this is the ability of the flu virus to keep cropping up in new forms.
immunodeficiency
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The earliest known specimen of the human immunodeficiency virus was found long after the death of its victim.
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The human immunodeficiency virus is not airborne; it is not easily spread.
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It remains to be seen whether vaccines or chemotherapy will play a greater part in controlling the human immunodeficiency virus .
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They said there needed to be more research done, especially on people recently infected with the human immunodeficiency virus .
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HIV-1, human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
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However it began, the human immunodeficiency virus must be far older than any of its extant strains.
infection
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This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection .
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This resurgence of measles disease underscored the need for new assays to characterize measles virus infections .
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When the disk is found to be free from a virus infection it is given an electronic signature code.
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He is suffering from an ankle injury and a virus infection .
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But some virus infections can follow another path, other than the acute cycle of replication.
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The mechanism responsible for secretion or intracellular retention of pre-S peptides in chronic hepatitis B virus infection is uncertain.
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There is at present no reliable marker to determine whether autoimmunity or hepatitis C virus infection is the major disease process.
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Over half the patients who acquire acute hepatitis C virus infection develop chronic hepatitis.
influenza
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It can be triggered by viruses , including those that cause upper respiratory infections, such as the influenza virus.
mystery
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The mystery virus , it was thought, would spread into the healthy tree, causing that too to become diseased.
particle
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When the blisters burst, they release virus particles that infect healthy animals.
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Before a virus particle is prepared for the electron microscope it must be made static.
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Virion: synonym for virus particle .
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For every virus particle cleared, however, at least one new one replaces it.
polio
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At one time, and I became adversaries over the selection of polio virus strains to be used as oral vaccines.
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First, how many types of polio virus existed?
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The polio virus first invades the intestines, where it lives, replicates, and usually establishes harmless infection.
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So, a polio vaccine tricks our body into making antibodies to the polio virus .
replication
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Membranous expression of pre-S1 also correlated significantly with the status of hepatitis B virus replication .
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The other is use of protease inhibitors, a class of drugs with an unusual ability to quell virus replication .
■ VERB
carry
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There is no risk to human health from meat carrying the virus .
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It is not really possible to know whether a person is carrying the virus or not.
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He is the man carrying the deadly virus .
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An acupuncturist at the clinic was found to be carrying the virus , which infects the liver.
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The nuns say there is insufficient evidence that the chickens carry the virus .
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The odds are that at least one of them carries the virus .
catch
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In that shop she had caught the virus of curiosity about the feeling of power over possessions.
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They might be avoiding feeble males lest they catch a virus from them.
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She skated off abruptly, called to service by customers who had caught the virus of her mood and were equally annoyed.
cause
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Feline leukaemia is caused by a specific virus , for which a vaccine is available.
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They can not check the damage caused by the virus , which is by then present in large numbers in the body.
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Any outbreak there, warn experts, would cause the virus to multiply enormously.
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When caused by a virus , pneumonia is usually mild.
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These can be inherited with other members of the family also having them, but are sometimes caused by the rubella virus .
contain
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A blood test can be used to find out whether a person's blood contains antibodies to the virus .
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Some of the first batches were thrown out because tests showed they may have contained live virus .
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It is particularly important to check about vaccinations because many of them contain live virus .
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One in four million doses contains a virus that has reverted to its contagious and paralytic state.
contract
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Then his horses contracted a virus .
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When he tried to return in 1992, several players said they were concerned about contracting the virus by playing against him.
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He does not know when he contracted the virus .
find
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Finally, D Roodman etal recently reported finding measles virus transcripts in cells derived from cultured pagetic bone.
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Ludwig became convinced that he might find evidence of borna virus in humans expressing abnormal behavior.
infect
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On the other hand, aphids can infect raspberries with incurable virus diseases, and blackcurrant reversion is spread by big-bud mites.
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No one knows how humans even become infected with the animal virus .
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The genetically modified saplings will in due course be infected with the virus to test their resistance.
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It also said some farmers had falsely claimed that their farms were infected with the virus to claim compensation.
kill
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Traditionally, that has meant injecting people with a weakened or killed version of the virus itself, triggering antibodies.
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The enzymes of the mouth and the digestive acids of the stomach would very likely kill the virus .
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Larvae thus become infected and are killed by the virus .
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As drugs kill off the virus most susceptible to them, they leave behind the more resistant strains.
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When some one gets a virus and becomes ill, the helper cells kill off the virus and usually they get better.
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The hot water in a home or restaurant dishwasher easily kills the virus .
pass
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Once infected, people remain infectious all their lives and can pass the virus on to others.
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Even before the antibody test is positive, the victim can pass the virus to others by methods that will be explained.
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Any infected person can pass the virus to others.
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And had not that song passed like a plague virus to every one of his fellow men in succeeding generations?
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Variants slow to kill were favoured because their bearers lasted long enough to pass the virus on.
spread
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But the militants at grassroots level ruthlessly exploited discontent over pay and strikes spread like a virus .
transmit
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But a very few aphids transmitting a virus can cause havoc to sugar beet, for instance.
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But the bear might have transmitted the rabies virus .
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Perhaps I have an asymptomatic case and transmitted the virus to him.
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People who know they are positive will not willfully transmit the virus .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a vaccine which protects against Hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus which is transmitted sexually or by sharing infected needles.
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A warning has gone out about a new virus that could wipe everything off your hard disk.
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an anti-virus program
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Computer users from around the world reported that the virus had invaded their systems.
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He could be carrying the AIDS virus .
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It is estimated that over thirty million people are now infected with the virus .
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She thinks she picked up some kind of mystery virus while she was on vacation.
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the virus that causes the common cold
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the common cold virus
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The disk was accidentally infected with a virus called "Stoned III."
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There's a virus going around - four people in my office were sick last week.
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You cannot get a virus from an email message alone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is a medical problem to attack the virus without attacking the normal cells.
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Less than 5 percent seem to tolerate the virus without ever getting sick.
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Once a person is infected they may recover naturally or they may become a chronic carrier of the virus .
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One final, explosive question remains: Why did a virus that was once so rare suddenly burst into a global pandemic?
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The virus opened the door for an onslaught of illnesses Pieters lists casually: hepatitis, pneumonia, shingles.
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They are the 8 % of the population who have the Aids virus .
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To retain Britain's disease-free status, we are told, we should not vaccinate livestock against the virus .