It's correct that term virus was coined by Pasteur in 1880

it's correct that term virus was coined by pasteur I 1880

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Actually the term virus was coined by the Dutch microbiologist Martinus Beijerinck.



In 1892, Dmitry Ivanovsky used one of the filters from infected tobacco plant to show that sap from a diseased tobacco plant remained infectious to healthy tobacco plants despite having been filtered. Martinus Beijerinck called the filtered, infectious substance a "virus" and this discovery is considered to be the beginning of virology.



So the term virus was coined by the Dutch microbiologist Martinus Beijerinck.



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