filterable virus

A virus that is small enough to pass through a fine-pored filter, as of diatomite or porcelain.

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fil′terable vi′rus

a virus small enough to pass through a bacteria-retaining filter: an informal indicator of size, as recent filters can hold back the smallest viruses.

[1910–15]

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Later that same year, however, Paul Remlinger and Rifat-Bey Frasheri in Constantinople and, separately, Alfonso di Vestea in Naples showed that the etiologic agent of rabies is a filterable virus. Negri continued until 1909 to try to prove that the intraneuronal neurons named after him corresponded to steps in the developmental cycle of a protozoan.

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The researchers showed that the cause of dengue fever was a filterable virus. They showed that parasites cause amoebic dysentery and discovered a treatment for it.

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That non filterable virus known as antisemitism began to infiltrate his writing to the point where the formerly gifted historian became a purveyor of Holocaust negationism.