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Smallpox virus
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Image from the Centers for Desease Control / Dr. Fred Murphy and Sylvia Whitfield.
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- 1975
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This transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicts a number of smallpox virus virions, magnified approximately 370,000 times.
The dumbbell-shaped structure inside the smallpox virion is the viral core, which contains the viral DNA.
