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Viruses were called Contagium vivum flui...

Viruses were called Contagium vivum fluidum by

A

de Herelle

B

Bawden and Pirie

C

Twort

D

Beijerinck

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D
M. W. Beijernick in 1898 confirmed the filterable nature of disease causing agent and described them as contagium vivum Fluidum (living fluid infectant). He gave the term virus. The term virus means poison.
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