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The term virus was coined by...

The term virus was coined by

A

Pasteur

B

Beijerinck

C

Ee/use

D

Mayer

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Pasteur (1880) used the term virus for any unknown agent that causes some disease. Beijerinck (1898) used this term for the causative agent of Tabacco mosaic disease.
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