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Answer for the clue "A group of viruses including those causing mumps and measles ", 13 letters:
paramyxovirus

Word definitions for paramyxovirus in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any member of the ''Paramyxoviridae'' family of negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses responsible for a number of human and animal diseases.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a group of viruses including those causing mumps and measles

Usage examples of paramyxovirus.

Wu more or less admitted that the Chi is similar to terrestrial bacteria, it is odd that a mammalian paramyxovirus rather than a bacteriophage was chosen, but Mariella dismisses it as a minor mystery, is more concerned with proving her hypothesis that, after infection, the Chi altered the virus.