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paramyxovirus

paramyxovirus

1 9.0
A virus like the ones that cause measles and mumps
  • noun
  • /ˌpærəˈmaɪkəˌvaɪrəs/
  • Specialized
: paramixovirus
  • Typical of a paramyxovirus.
  • a novel paramyxovirus

Examples

  • 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.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Other studies also theorize that paramyxovirus infection is the etiologic agent of the disorder (Siris, 1998).

    Academic text (2004)
  • Vital signs and laboratory results for a patient infected with a novel paramyxovirus related to rubula-like viruses isolated from fruit bats.

    Academic text (2014)
  • They include a whole group of viruses, the paramyxoviruses and so forth, that are mumps and things like that, measles.

  • 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.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Therefore, as a first step in determining the pervasiveness of infection in African wild nonhuman primates, we screened these animals for paramyxovirus in Zambia.

    Academic text (2013)
  • This novel paramyxovirus is provisionally named Sosuga virus in recognition of its probable geographic origin (South Sudan, Uganda).

    Academic text (2014)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2014)
  • 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.

  • The mumps infection is caused by a type of virus classified as a paramyxovirus.

Surface Forms

paramyxovirus singular

Morphology

paramyxovirus = virus (opaque) = para + myxo + virus

The word is a technical scientific formation built on 'virus' with classical combining forms, but its biological classification meaning is not predictable for most learners.

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.