# virino

> hypothetical infectious particle that was once theorized to be the cause of scrapie, thought to consist of nucleic acids in a protective coat of host cell proteins; never widely accepted, now known to be prions

**Wikidata**: [Q4014556](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4014556)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virino)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/virino