reovirus
pronunciation
How to pronounce reovirus in British English:
UK ['riːə(ʊ),vaɪrəs]
How to pronounce reovirus in American English:
US [ˌrioʊ'vaɪrəs]
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- Noun:
- any of a group of nonarboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis
Word Origin
- reovirus (n.)
- 1959, coined by U.S. medical researcher Dr. Albert B. Sabin (1906-1993), acronym for respiratory enteric orphan virus; "orphan" because it was not connected to any of the diseases it is associated with.
Example
- 1. Identification of virulence for avian reovirus strain s1133 .
- 2. Structural basis of inner transcription for reovirus .
- 3. Grass carp reovirus , major capsid protein , transfection , eukaryotic expression .
- 4. Newcastle disease , infectious bronchitis , infectious bursal disease and reovirus vaccine , inactivated .
- 5. Key words : grass carp reovirus ; aquareovirus ; rdrp ; sequence analysis .