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viremic

viremic

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Having viruses in the blood that can spread to other people
  • adjective
  • /vaɪˈrimɪk/
  • Specialized
: viremico
  • During their hospital stay, the doctors confirmed that the patient was viremic after testing his blood for the presence of the virus.
  • viremic travelers
  • viremic phase

Examples

  • Specimens collected early after illness onset were likely collected during the viremic state and thus positive by RT-PCR, but not by IgM ELISA.

    Academic text (2013)
  • In addition, clinicians may find it difficult to obtain acute-phase samples, particularly if patients delay their initial consultation or are still in transit during their viremic phase.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Again, highly significant changes as you would expect because the animals in blue are a viremic and the animals in red have continued viremia.

  • If younger mice had been tested, the seroprevalence is likely to have been lower and the proportion of viremic animals higher.

    Academic text (2014)
  • In facility A, many mice had LCMV antibodies, and several were viremic at the time of the investigation.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Of the 13,000 adult mice in room 1 of building 2, 131-1,179 were viremic.

    Academic text (2014)
  • This work clearly shows the increasing risk that viremic travelers pose to Australia, and to Queensland in particular, as a means for importing DENVs that could have substantial outbreak potential.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Because the viremic phase in orthobunyavirus infections typically is short, we chose to use serologic testing by VNT to evaluate an immunologic response in exposed persons (1, 21).

    Academic text (2012)
  • Despite repeated transmission events, dengue is not endemic to Queensland, and transmission requires a viremic traveler to import the virus to initiate epidemic spread (6).

    Academic text (2012)
  • The increase in outbreak incidence reflects changes in international travel over this period, which has increased 3.5-fold since the early 1990s (12). This increase is consistent with increased importations of virus carried by viremic travelers and the recognized increase in DENV infections throughout the world (13).

    Academic text (2012)

Surface Forms

viremic positive

Morphology

viremic = viremia (semi-transparent) = viremia + ic

The adjective is a regular noun-to-adjective formation from 'viremia' using the productive suffix '-ic'.

Etymology

Viremic comes from the common word virus and the ending -emia, which means 'blood condition' and appears in words like anemia. So, to be viremic is to have viruses in the blood, which explains the medical meaning 'having viruses present in the bloodstream'.