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Retrovirus
A retrovirus is an RNA-containing virus that uses reverse transcriptase during the process of replication.
Definitions in the literature
- An RNA-containing virus that converts its RNA into DNA by means of the enzyme reverse transcriptase [1].
- a virus with an RNA genome that encodes reverse transcriptase among its products, which converts the RNA genome into a DNA sequence [2].
- Virus that injects its RNA genome into a host cell, where reverse transcriptase produces a complementary, double-stranded DNA molecule from the RNA template [3].
