paramyxovirus
- noun
- /ˌpærəˈmaɪkəˌvaɪrəs/
- Specialized
- Typical of a paramyxovirus.
- a novel paramyxovirus
Examples
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After several known suspect pathogens were ruled out as the cause of her illness, deep sequencing and metagenomics analysis revealed a novel paramyxovirus related to rubula-like viruses isolated from fruit bats.
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Other studies also theorize that paramyxovirus infection is the etiologic agent of the disorder (Siris, 1998).
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Vital signs and laboratory results for a patient infected with a novel paramyxovirus related to rubula-like viruses isolated from fruit bats.
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They include a whole group of viruses, the paramyxoviruses and so forth, that are mumps and things like that, measles.
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The combination of next-generation sequencing and metagenomic analysis identified a novel paramyxovirus; the virus genome was completely characterized by use of standard sequencing techniques.
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Therefore, as a first step in determining the pervasiveness of infection in African wild nonhuman primates, we screened these animals for paramyxovirus in Zambia.
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This novel paramyxovirus is provisionally named Sosuga virus in recognition of its probable geographic origin (South Sudan, Uganda).
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For example, Hendra virus (HeV), a zoonotic paramyxovirus, was discovered in 1994, and since then, infections have occurred in 7 humans, each of whom had a strong epidemiologic link to similarly affected horses.
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They can also disrupt the cytoplasmic sensors of viral RNA, and that's done by paramyxoviruses, which include the agents that cause mumps and measles.
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The mumps infection is caused by a type of virus classified as a paramyxovirus.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Paramyxovirus is made of para- 'beside', myxo- 'mucus', and virus 'germ'. So it names a virus that is 'mucus-related', which fits viruses like measles and mumps that often infect the nose and throat.