Mimivirus: leading the way in the discovery of giant viruses of amoebae

Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 243 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.197 Authors: Philippe Colson, Bernard La Scola, Anthony Levasseur, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés & Didier Raoult The accidental discovery of the giant virus of amoeba — Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV; more commonly known as mimivirus) — in 2003 changed the field of virology. Viruses were previously defined by their submicroscopic size, which probably prevented the search for giant viruses, which
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