WordNet
n. infection by a virus that is pathogenic to humans [syn: viral infection]
Usage examples of "virus infection".
At eleven someone telephoned from the health farm and said they were so sorry, my mother-in-law was in bed with a virus infection, nothing serious, don't worry, she would ring her daughter as soon as she was a little better.
Perhaps I have picked up a mild labyrinthitis, a virus infection of the middle ear.
That yielded to treatment, but something else followed, perhaps a virus infection.
There are three stages of virus infection-the particle itself, the virion.
I am quoting here from MECHANISMS OF VIRUS INFECTION edited by Dr.
Whistler and Emtrey came up with an analysis of the Krytos virus infection pattern and I can get experts up to show how your actions actually made it much milder than it could have been.
Just as happens in an organism attacked by a virus infection, the artificial viruses burst through the host cells once they had used up their vital energy.
They all suffered from a mild virus infection at about that time, but it didn't develop.
He had been suffering from what seemed to be a virus infection, which had steadily grown worse over the previous year.
The setter, Boy, went to a forester in the Rhoen Mountains, where he unfortunately died later of a virus infection while we were in Russia.
Not that he was recovering, for he was not, and there was no change in the terminal status of the virus infection.
They almost defeated us with that virus infection suspended in the gum on the backs of multi-color commemorative stamps.