MUMPS

DEFINITION AND MICROBIOLOGY

DEFINITION AND MICROBIOLOGY

DEFINITION AND MICROBIOLOGY

Mumps is an acute systemic communicable viral infection whose most distinctive feature is swelling of one or both parotid glands. It is caused by mumps virus, a negative-strand nonsegmented RNA paramyxovirus.

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