How to Use poliovirus in a Sentence

poliovirus

noun
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  • In the dish, the poliovirus tried to attack the HeLa cells.
    — Ainissa Ramirez, Scientific American, 17 June 2021
  • The last known case of wild poliovirus in the Philippines was in 1993.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 19 Sep. 2019
  • As a result, twice as many of the mice survived a bout of poliovirus.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2011
  • Throughout the 1940s, researchers learned a lot about the poliovirus.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • There are two types of poliovirus vaccines that have been in use for decades.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Just two years ago, the whole African region was declared free of wild poliovirus.
    — Rose Gana Fomban Leke and Zulfiqar Bhutta, STAT, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The poliovirus can attach to a protein on the surface of cancer cells.
    — Jonathan Lapook, CBS News, 26 June 2018
  • Two forms of the virus can cause paralysis, one of them being the wild poliovirus found in nature.
    — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Just last week, officials found traces of the poliovirus in the city's wastewater system.
    — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The tests found the Nanopatch effective using 1/40th of the usual poliovirus vaccine dosage, Kendall says.
    — Gary Strauss, National Geographic, 14 Nov. 2016
  • The tests found the Nanopatch effective using 1/40th of the usual poliovirus vaccine dosage, Kendall says.
    — Gary Strauss, National Geographic, 14 Nov. 2016
  • Doctors proposed that a milder relative of the poliovirus must be at fault.
    — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The poliovirus mostly affects the intestines, which are lined with mucus.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021
  • But the poliovirus is a different type of virus than the novel coronavirus.
    — Thomas Curwen, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The case was the first detection of the wild poliovirus in Africa since 2016 and came almost two years after the continent was declared free of it.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Today, Pakistan and Afghanistan are the last two countries in the world where the wild poliovirus remains endemic.
    — Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In 95% of cases, the poliovirus is only present in the bloodstream and the infection is asymptomatic.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • But then, in 2016, four new cases of wild poliovirus were reported.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Scientists have been searching sewage for pathogens since at least the 1940s, most notably for poliovirus.
    — Kyle Bibby, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Some specialists see the creation and circulation of stronger strains of the poliovirus as the culprit.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The oral version contains the live poliovirus, while the shot, administered in the leg or arm, has various non-living parts of the virus in it.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Afghanistan and its neighbor Pakistan are the last two countries where the wild poliovirus is still endemic, and the campaign is going full bore to wipe it out by the end of this year.
    — Byleslie Roberts, science.org, 16 Jan. 2023
  • In the late 1980s, when the world embarked on the ambitious plan to consign polioviruses to history’s trash bin, it was thought the job would have been done and dusted by now.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 May 2023
  • The obliterated strain—wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3)—is one of only three wild strains of polio.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2019
  • That’s a huge reason why no cases of polio caused by wild poliovirus have originated in the U.S. since 1979.
    — Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The second vaccine, the oral poliovirus vaccine, or OPV, is given orally and uses a live weakened version of the virus.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The frustrating effort to scrub polioviruses from the planet is like a nightmarish blend of whack-a-mole and Groundhog Day.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The poliovirus can cause flulike symptoms, such as fever and nausea, as well as more serious cases that affect the brain and spinal cord.
    — Betsy Morris, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The poliovirus had three wild types, and people had to receive all three types of the vaccine to be fully inoculated.
    — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The presence of the poliovirus in the city’s wastewater suggests likely local circulation of the virus, the city and New York state health departments said.
    — Karen Matthews and Mike Stobbe, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2022

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